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...Admiral Strauss, Regular...
...wrote to Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania his order for a seven-day dream: "A suite that will face east ... a cup of English-made tea served to me in bed ... no military title -'Mister' will be music to my ears. . . ." A phonograph "with any & all Strauss selections," a "large, grey-haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every morning for his wife Jane, candles on the table for dinner, a one-way telephone-"outgoing only," a prodigious menu full of such delicacies as filet...
...most famous names-such pre-Soviet romantics as Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov. The younger Soviet composers are generally more gifted and expert than those of the U.S., less jaded than those of Western Europe. Western Europe's only living first-raters, Germany's Richard Strauss and Finland's Jan Sibelius, are aged men whose best work is already a generation...
...goes for advice to Commodore Lewis L. Strauss, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., now a naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer...
...Philadelphia wharves, invented a marshmallow syrup, made enough to buy the factory. Last year he had saved up enough money to hire 75 members of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in their off hours. On the top floor of his factory, he rehearsed them in musical bonbons by Johann Strauss and Offenbach, and piped both the sweet and sour notes to the candy kitchens below. Then he took his Pops Orchestra on a tour of Army & Navy hospitals, paying out $1,200 for each concert...