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Another is Harold Wilson, 31, the youngest President the Board of Trade has ever had.* A star student at Oxford and later a don, he is an expert on coal and a master statistician. The third is George Russell Strauss, 46, the new Supply Minister, who made his mark as the Transport Ministry's parliamentary secretary by brilliant work on the transport nationalization bill...
...same little old man entered the royal box in London's Drury Lane Theater, he was dressed in evening clothes. The audience rose to its feet and thunderously applauded. Up in his box, his watery blue eyes more liquid than usual, the great composer, 83-year-old Richard Strauss, bowed jerkily, first to the orchestra, then to the audience. Then he listened with half-parted lips to his music as played by the well-instructed Sir Thomas...
Once, in his excitement after a brilliant violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
Rich & Broke. It was eleven years since the composer of Der Rosenkavalier and Salome had visited England. During that time his fame had increased as his fortunes had gone down. He still looked fit and florid, but Richard Strauss was broke. Though his operas and orchestral suites were frequently played throughout Europe and the U.S., he had received none of the benefits. At war's end, the Allies impounded his sizable royalties-(estimated at $460,000 from British and U.S. performances alone) for reparations...
Kirkland's eleven apparently picked up yesterday where it left off last year as it rolled to a 27 to 6 triumph over a hapless Lowell outfit. On an adjoining gridiron, Leverett opened its Strauss Trophy defense by whitewashing Winthrop...