Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quench an ovation is to tug at the concertmaster's sleeve, an order for the musicians to leave the stage. But though the players filed out quickly last week the audience refused to leave until Toscanini came back, shyly accepted their cheers and bravos. It was his 67th birthday and he had let the day be advertised for the sake of the Philharmonic-Symphony's campaign for money. But at speechmaking he drew the line. "I talk with my baton," he told the campaigners. In intermission while he was changing his shirt, rubbing his face with cologne...
...Philharmonic concert been canceled. Only two have been postponed, one when Conductor Anton Seidl died suddenly, the other when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Radio has made the Philharmonic the world's most widely heard orchestra. Columbia Broadcasting System figured that 9,000,000 listened to Toscanini's birthday concert, the 2,981st concert that the Philharmonic has given. For its artistic prestige, never higher than during the last decade, the little 67-year-old Italian is responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera conductor but in 1915 he tiffed with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, raged...
...Fascist Hymn at what seemed to him an inappropriate occasion. No coaxing could get him to Bayreuth when Adolf Hitler discriminated against his fellow musicians who happened to be Jews (TIME. June 19). He took one of his stands last week when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many a Sunday afternoon subscriber remembered that he had made a speech three years ago when Signora Carla was home in Milan with a broken leg. At great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert...
...55th birthday Albert Einstein filled out a Federal income tax blank as a nonresident alien, mailed it with his check from Princeton to the Collector of Internal Revenue for the First New Jersey District...
...years. In those 39 years, first as bacteriologist, then as assistant director of the New York City Health Department's laboratories, she had become one of her country's foremost bacteriologists, winning many a major battle in the war against disease. Now, as she approached her 711st birthday, city officials wanted to take her from her life work, retire her for age. Fresh from a course in New York In firmary's Women's Medical College and a year of graduate study abroad, Dr. Williams joined the city's laboratory staff in 1895. One year...