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...possession of a powerful shot, has had difficulty in capitalizing his scoring opportunities this season, shook off his jinx and saw his shot nestle in Dartmouth strings on two occasions. The second Saltonstall goal finished off the scoring of the game and was achieved on a solo invasion...
...East, was starting its swift, insidious advance on the Barbary Coast. A good musician, a born improviser, he was soon mak-ing all the Whiteman arrangements. Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write him some music for a serious concert. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was a piano solo. Grofe scored...
...from Harvard, the Boston musicians will render Handel's "Concerto Grosso for a String Orchestra in F Major" as the first number. This will be followed by Griffes "Poem for Flute and Orchestra", a new work, for which Georges Laurent, a regular member of the orchestra, will carry the solo parts. Next on the program will be "Daybreak" and Siegfried's "Rhine Journey," excerpts from Wagner's famous opera "Die Gotterdammenung," Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in 11 Major," one of the best known of the Finnish composer's symphonic pieces will conclude the program...
...years before that he had been doing astonishing things with light airplanes, among them the first non-stop flight from London to Turin in a 35 h. p. Baby Avro. For such exploits he was temporarily dubbed "Sir Jockey." Recently he was accorded casual notice for two remarkable solo flights, both in a light Puss Moth: New York to Kingston, Jamaica; and Natal, Brazil to Bathurst, British Gambia, West Africa?2.000 mi. (TIME, Dec. 7). The last flight, in Editor Grey's opinion, "beats anything that has ever been done singlehanded by any aviator in the world...
Even the English press failed to get excited about the first solo crossing of the South Atlantic. The reason, as seen by Editor Grey: "Bert Hinkler has a rooted prejudice against telling anybody that he is going to do anything before he does it. And that is not the way to become famous. . . . If you go and do a thing without telling the newspapers all about it beforehand, then, just out of spite, you get about four lines to say that it's been done...