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...smiling, vital, masterful, Franklin D. Roosevelt looked steadily last fortnight into a battery of news cameras. Well their operators knew that the results would be indistinguishable from hundreds of similarly posed portraits, but the Press demanded that the appearance of the President of the U. S. on his 54th birthday be recorded. When the photographers seemed satisfied the President relaxed, took off his nose-glasses, dropped his head, rubbed his eyes strained by the dazzling flashes of magnesium bulbs. Alert, Harris & Ewing's cameraman snapped & flashed again. Result was a picture in which President Roosevelt appeared...
...manner and character of an artist is through his unretouched drawings. And drawings take up little room. Most of the pictures that Mrs. Rockefeller has bought for her own enjoyment are crowded into her specially lighted gallery on the seventh floor of the old Rockefeller town house in West 54th Street...
...young men with white flannel trousers and sunburned noses who make it their business, all year round, to wangle for the world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
...defect in the championship chances of Wood, Grant, Shields, Menzel and Allison next week is the fact that none of the five has shown noticeable improvement during the past two years. In this respect the sixth player in any well-advised list of U. S. hopes to win the 54th Singles Championship is certainly their superior. Redhaired, freckled, 20-year-old Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. has never beaten Perry but he came close to doing so last year in the Pacific Coast final when he forced him to five sets. His performances at home and abroad this summer have...
...cravat. On Symphony Hall stage the players tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary...