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...hand to peddle programs and hawk peanuts before the game. WE THEY Fiend, Wis72820 Farwell D. Smith ocC Farb, the Desperate, clum $imons, .05 Quislin, 7 Stupor, tilt Solmssen, ugh Photographer (sic) Cabot to Burrhaid, ng Lowell to Peron, old pro God. Bellylaff, yuk Cheers, 2 Cockatoo, awk Tiger...
Most-played of his orchestral works is the American Festival Overture, written for Koussevitzky in 1939, and based on a boys' street call "wee-awk-ee" (meaning "c'mon over"). This month the Overture is out on a record (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Kindler; Victor). The first major example of Schuman's music on disks, it is a lusty, cleanly written, skin-deep score. No atonalist, William Schuman composes with independent spirit, says of his music, "For better or worse, it sounds the way I want...
...Gehrig, Hank Greenberg learned his baseball on the sidewalks of New York, first attracted big-league scouts while fence-busting for a New York high-school team. Big and gawky (6 ft. 4 in.), he was turned down by the late, great John McGraw because he was "too awk ward." But, like Gehrig, Greenberg was industrious, persevering, went on to be come one of the best first basemen in the game. After seven years at first base, Greenberg ungrudgingly agreed to shift to the outfield last year "for the good of the team" - to make room in the daily lineup...
Wham, Mr. Roosevelt; pow, Sears Roebuck; awk, big dipper; bop, summer rain...
Creators of comic strips have done much with the Sunday Night idea; what could be better material? Papa in his stocking feet; Mama in a temper; horrible noises rising around from huge-mouthed canary birds, thrown vases, dying pet; "Awk," "Tweet-Tweet," "Glub-Glub," "Plunk," "Zowie...