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...German-born Soprano Marita Farell chirped somewhat saggingly as the Voice of the Forest Bird...
Like Stephen Foster (Old Black Joe) and Ethelbert Nevin (The Rosary), Cadman was born in Pennsylvania (Johnstown, 1881). His father was an employe for many years in the Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...
Oldest of ten children, Isaac was born in Philadelphia in 1827, went to a Quaker school and Haverford College, was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...
...Born. To Max Baer, onetime (1934-35) world's heavyweight boxing champion and Mary Ellen Sullivan Baer; their first child, a son; in Oakland, Calif...
...Born 60 years ago in Annapolis, son of the late famed Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, U.S.N., the N.A.M. chairman is a Yaleman with both Sheffield and academic degrees, having graduated from "Sheff" in the Class of 1897 and returning for an A.B. the following year. After law school he joined his father-by special dispensation-for a cruise on the old U.S.S. Kentucky from Manhattan to Hong Kong, dining on the way with the Sultan of Turkey. Back in Manhattan in 1901, Mr. Chester went from law to business and back again to law, and then...