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Only 26 years ago, he made his first joyful noise unto the Lord from Trenton, N. J. At 6, he began composing. At 10, he was a violin virtuoso, playing with string quartets in Budapest, Warsaw, Berlin, At 13, he had written his first symphony. Since 20, he has lived abroad and astonished the world. In France, he has been called "the most important U. S. composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trenton Tough | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...string Quartette and a number of other selections by the Vocal and Banjo Clubs, concluded by the customary "Fair Harvard" presented by the combined Clubs will finish the evening's program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS TO GIVE UNION CONCERT | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sub Specie Aeternitatis | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Although not entering the final game with an unbroken string of victories, as had been the fortune of three previous Freshman sextets, the first year team has a record which but for the exceptional prowess of the 1927, 1928 and 1929 teams, would be highly creditable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Skaters Will Face Eli Pups, Led by Former Kent Luminary | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

...work of the starting forward line tamped it as distinctly superior to the second-string trio, and also to any combination Yale had to offer. Zarakov's two goals were both gems; Scott's all-around play ranked him with Noble as the outstanding player on the ice; Tudor failed to score, but threatened often. The second line played true to form, failing to produce any goals, but checking the Yale attack well. When this trio was on the ice the game often slowed up and several minutes passed with little action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ATTACK TOO MUCH FOR YALE | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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