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Dour little Bobby Cruickshank played so badly against Al Watrous of Detroit that he was 9 down on the 24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...
...Matthew Scott Sloan from the presidency of its subsidiary, New York Edison Co. Mr. Sloan was generally believed to represent the Brady interests. Mr. Carlisle represents the National City-United Corp. group, thought to be strengthening their position in Gas. Re-elected president of the company for the 24th time was George Bruce Cortelyou, onetime (1907-09) Secretary of the Treasury...
Starting Dec. 1, 1931 Soviet weeks will end on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th days of each month, which will be holidays. Twelve such 30-day months add up to 360 days. Inserting five special Red holidays between the months pads out the year to 365 days. An extra special holiday will take care of leap year...
...problem, decided the National Association of Organists when 200 delegates met in Manhattan last week for its 24th annual convention, is the increasing tendency of churches to employ "choral specialists" in place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think...
Fifteen years later another man came to Paris from Strasbourg where a while before the patriots had almost guillotined him. He was the 24th son of an Austrian schoolmaster. His name was Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer of 29 symphonies, friend and pupil of Haydn. For a while he ran a music shop, published the first complete edition of Haydn's quartets. Mozart wrote of him: "How fortunate music would be if Pleyel could replace Haydn," but Composer Pleyel also turned to the manufacture of pianos. He played his pianos at the great courts of Europe, turned to farming...