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Boston, according to a recent statement by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, "is the most esthetic and intellectual city in the U. S." Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...
...last quarter of a football game invariably seems to drag on forever. Time outs are frequent, and strained nerves magnify the precious seconds as they slip by. During the final dozen plays or so, every one of the thousands of spectators who pack the giant stadia of the country every autumn Saturday is thinking almost constantly of the amount of time left before the last whistle. And it seems reasonable to suppose that every one of them is entitled to know kow many minutes there are remaining...
Similarly the two U. S. citizens who last week accepted invitations to sit on the bank charter committee pack their own potency. They must have plenty. They are Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of First National Bank of New York, and Melvin Alvah Traylor, president of First National Bank of Chicago...
...Hair fern used by florists in arranging and pack inn bouquets...
...daughter the rest of Mr. Ziegfeld's story?Ruby Keeler, pert star of Show Girl, third wife of Al ("Mammy") Jolson, had been mysteriously stricken during a performance. With a twinge of sympathy for Ruby, a burst of joy for her own good fortune, Dorothy Stone ran to pack...