Word: straussed
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...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
...Peter E. Strauss Scholarships: Albert A. Leveton, 4Dn., of Springfield, Mass; Edward S. Hansis, 4Dn., of Needham, Mass.; Joseph M. Baker, 4Dn., of Brattleboro...
...piano Stravinsky became a composer more important, his champions insist, than Richard Strauss or Jean Sibelius, the other great S's of 20th Century music. Stravinsky's father, a basso at the Maryinsky Theatre in Petrograd, encouraged the boy so long as he was content to remain an amateur. He went dutifully to the University to study law but his marks were consistently poor. At 20 the die of his career was cast when the great Rimsky-Korsakoff took him for a pupil...
...melody from a symphony by Strauss...
...following officers were elected on the Advocate: John J. Slocum '36, president; John A. Strauss '36, Pegasus; James L. LeB. Boyle, 2nd '36, secretary; Robert S. Chafee '36, treasurer; Gerard J. Piel '37, business manager. Those added from the Critic board were Charles R. Cherington '35, John P. Coolidge '36, George L. Haskins '35, and Henry V. Poor...