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...aside from California's surpassing exuberance, was that the bridge was the world's greatest by practically every measurement-length of span, height, difficulty of achievement. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was conceived 20 years ago by Engineer Joseph Baermann ("Colossus of Roads'') Strauss and finally completed at a cost of eleven lives...
...When Joe Strauss offered his plans to bridge the Golden Gate's mile of surging tidal currents, everybody laughed. After the California Legislature authorized a Bridge District with power to build the bridge, it took six years of legal battle before the U. S. Supreme Court permitted it to proceed. The War Department debated a year before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused...
...Engineer Strauss & staff declare that the bridge could stand a 'quake twice as bad as the 1906 one, plus a hurricane, without harm. But there are others who claim differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would...
...Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *"Fete-Dieu a Seville" from "Iberia" Albeniz-Arbos *"Country Gardens" Grainger *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mikado," Selection Sullivan *"Londondery Air" Arranged by Grainger *The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa...
...March, "semper Fidelis"Sousa *"Unfinished" Symphony in B minor, First movement Schubert Allegro moderato *Spring Song Mendelssohn *Academic festival Overture Brahms *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Voices of Spring," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *"Up the Street," March Mose *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...