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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was not until after World War I (where, he says, he was wounded when a case of salmon fell on his foot-"It gives me a picturesque limp on rainy days") that he went through the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could...
Concertos & Jive. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is small (82 players), local (half of the musicians come from east Texas), young (average age: 30) and very enthusiastic over its new conductor. Though there is an impressive "Founded in 1901" at the top of its programs, the present orchestra is really only...
Yellow Peak. Spruce but hatless, Hoagy had flown into Indianapolis from Los Angeles earlier in the week, dashed straight to the Murat Theater to oversee the rehearsals. Conductor Sevitzky* made room for him next to the podium, and after the photographers had finished crawling under the music racks to snap...
At 50, Hoagy can almost support his family (a wife and two young sons) on the income from Stardust, written in 1929. Says he: "It's practically an annuity." He still felt "like a rank amateur" after his first long-haired composition, but he confessed he was already at...
Doctors usually like to wait ten years before declaring a case of syphilis cured. But last week the medical team which first used penicillin in human syphilis announced that the first four patients treated had been re-examined and, after six years, could be pronounced cured.