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Arthur Rodzinski, brush-haired, Dalmatian-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, played conventional Bach and Beethoven for the opening concert of the orchestra's 103rd season in Carnegie Hall, then gave convention the boot by playing an encore-George Gershwin's jazzy / Got Rhythm. Although the first Philharmonic encore in many years brought down the house, it struck the New York Times's staid music critic, Olin Downes, as "an unwise impulse...
...brief ritual consists of five hymns, parts of the 103rd and 46th Psalms, a Litany of Dedication, a Litany of Intercession, many a prayer. Besides the expected thanksgiving, the prayers also petition that God "may keep us humble in victory; forbid that we should harbor hatreds or revenge...
...guest on Information Please, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia recognized the ingredients of spaghetti sauce,* the duets in Tristan & Isolde, missed when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from...
...Stewart gorged himself up to Army weight, was told he would be called this month (his Los Angeles draft board had previously found him 10 lb. underweight-TIME, Feb. 17). Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's grandson Henry Stuart Hughes quit the Brown University faculty (history), joined the 103rd Field Artillery from Rhode Island. Draft Prospect William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, promised to resign his presidency of the New York Stock Exchange when he is called in May (see p. 78). Jaded, faded Jackie Coogan, 26, got his Hollywood board to draft him ahead of his normal order, reported...
...great soul." House Chaplain James Shera Montgomery intoned the 103rd Psalm, his deep, oiled voice rolling over the words...