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Horween has proved himself a capable coach and a wise and patient leader. He is a man for whom his players will work willingly and without the feeling that they are being driven to death for the sole purpose of producing a string of victories. In the four years that he has been at the reins in Harvard football his teams and their records have shown consistent improvement and this improvement has had its reflection in the ever growing optimism and good will of the student body...
...father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
...famed European string quartets recently made U. S. debuts...
...Lener String Quartet comes from Budapest. Its members are Jeno Lener, first violin, Joseph
...Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled...