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...with diplomatic passport to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Pressmen followed him, asked hurriedly of concerts abroad, of his villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake Como, discussed with him plans for the Philharmonic's 86th season.† Next Night. " Opening concerts," said the Philharmonic program, "Nos. 2189 and 2190"; and proceeded to list a Vivaldi concerto, a Rieti concerto, Ferroud's "Foules" and Beethoven's Second Symphony. A great audience, eager to be pleased, found the Vivaldi pleasant; the Rieti clever, inconsequential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philharmonic Opening | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Felicitated, through the mouths of Majority Leader Tilson and Minority Leader Garrett, Congressman Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina on his 86th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Feb. 7, 1927 | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated $350,000, repeated a similar donation Mr. Baker had made in 1910, upon his 70th birthday. This time there seemed no especial occasion, unless to denote his going on a European vacation in this, his 86th* year or to mark his 63rd year with the bank, on July 25. At Rochester, N. Y., 13,269 employes of the Eastman Kodak Co., received $2,786,165 in one broad bonus-more than $200 each. At Luling, a small oil town of south central Texas, on an upper fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bonuses | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...England last week Dr. F. W. Axham died of bronchitis, in his 86th year. Two days before death he whispered haltingly over the rales: " Let us forgive. I speak generally. For myself I forgive, as I hope to be forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Axham Dies | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Tarrytown, N. Y. The day before his 86th birthday, John Davison Rockefeller hastily gulped down a bowl of hot milk toast, went out to the first tee of his little 9-hole course, drove off. When he finished the round, he stated that his score was 48-an assertion smirkingly corroborated by his caddy. "The best 86-year-old golfer in the world," said his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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