Word: weinstock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exception to the Simon & Schuster rule, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns, one a member of their own editorial staff. Result: Men of Music avoids the pious saws and muddy technical jargon of conventional musical biography, describes racily and well the flights and foibles of those posey, neurotic, childlike, hardheaded geniuses who wrote the world's great symphonies and operas...
Authors Brockway & Weinstock's fluently expressed prejudices will give a jolt or two to dyed-in-tradition music-lovers. For them Chopin is "the most truly original of all composers"; bob-haired, ecclesiastic Liszt "the most tremendous musical failure of the 19th Century." Biggest jolt: a cool reference to sentimental Melodist Tschaikowsky as "the greatest symphonist of the 19th Century-after Beethoven." Of such critical jabs, close-collaborating Authors Brockway & Weinstock say simply: "If they start a controversy . . . so much the better. We think the future will bear them...
Assisting Speer on the dance committee were: Gerard Weinstock '39; Ernest Sargeant '40; Hunt Hamill '40 Alexander Stohn '41; Frederick Bruck '41; and David D. Wells...
Most sensational piece of evidence unearthed by the Guild was a memorandum from Managing Editor Edwin L. James to Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, found on the desk of Times Auditor Harry Weinstock. The memorandum referred to a Communist leaflet circulated through the Times. It said: "The spies report that some of the auditing people are back of this. Maybe it will amuse Mr. Weinstock to try to find...
...William N. Dale '40, Joseph J. Goohearn, '40, Thomas Goldman '39, Garfield H. Horn '40, Thomas J. Pressley '40, and Lawrence I. Radway '40. Successful Business Board candidates were: Theodore J. Fraizer '41, Ralph Harris, Jr. '39, Robert Kaplan '39, James D. Lightbody '40, G. Bernham Lyons '40, Gerald Weinstock '39, Roger L. Werner '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkie...