Word: baumann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLES IVES: SIX SONGS (Mordecai Baumann, baritone, Albert Hirsch, pianist; New Music Quarterly Recordings, Bennington College, Bennington, Vt.). It has taken a generation for concertgoers to realize that shy, bristle-bearded New Englander Ives is no crackpot, but one of the pithiest, most individual, most authentically American of contemporary U. S. composers. The disc contains at least two top-notchers: Charlie Rutlage and Two Little Flowers...
Meanwhile, on the Rensselaer campus, Robert G. Baumann, 160-pound captain of the college football team and president of the Student Union, briskly assembled his associates and their penny plunder, organized the Taxcentinels. Purpose of the stunt, explained Baumann, was to protest against "hidden taxes." The Taxcentinels signed a pledge "to help fight the growth of taxes which now consume 25? out of every dollar spent by the average person . . . [by paying] one-quarter of the price of all purchases in pennies, in order to dramatize this situation...
...town under a strike is no sermon but a text. Aimed obliquely from the "left." The Shadow Before should hit many a "right"-minded reader squarely in the middle. Until the strike started, the New England mill town of Fullerton seemed a fairly pleasant little place. To young Harry Baumann it was just the site of his father's factory, which gave him enough money to be a Harvardman, raise delightful hell in New York. To Mill-Superintendent Thayer it was the whole U. S. To his silly wife it was the small town to which she was condemned...
...defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting himself. Silly Mrs. Thayer died of overexerting her alcoholic heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners out of Fullerton. Marjorie at last was leaving...
...Freshmen who will take part are: F. DeW. Bolman, Jr., V. H. Kramer, J. G. Patterson, Morris Pfaelzer 2d, and C. L. Baumann, Jr. (alternate) W. S. Howell, instructor in Public Speaking, will direct the debate, which has formerly been held as part of the argumentation classes of English A. Members of the University Debating Council will work with the debaters in preparing their arguments, and two Radcliffe teachers, the Misses McMasters and Ruggles, will also assist the negative and affirmative teams respectively...