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...cultural group headed by the president of The Bronx Women's Club, the president of The Bronx Soroptimists and Borough President James J. Lyons-to give "the very first series of Standard Symphonic Concerts ever staged in The Borough of The Bronx." Handsomest Conductor Marrow is a Virginia-born batonist who was once musical director of the Provincetown Players and who, last spring, put on some chamber concerts at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel at which audiences put themselves in fine fettle by drinking and smoking while listening to music by 35 players, mostly from the New York Philharmonic...
Died. Alceo Dossena, 60, Italian sculptor who was "born 500 years too late"; of a brain hemorrhage; in Rome. Sculptor Dossena, regarded as a genius in his own right, gained fame by being so adept at copying old masters that he fooled experts. His copies were sold as genuine, brought more than...
...McGugin, who was. born in Iowa but prefaced intersectional games with profane locker room descriptions of Sherman's March to the Sea, was the father of Southern football. Other schools began speculating about Dan McGugin's new assistant when for two years (1921-22) Vanderbilt produced undefeated teams. In 1922 both Kentucky and Alabama offered Wade their head coaching jobs. Wallace Wade went to be interviewed in Lexington where there occurred one of the crucial episodes in the history of Southern football. Having practically decided to take the Kentucky job, Wallace Wade waited in an anteroom while...
Georges Braque is now a big, rugged man with white hair and deep-set eyes. He was born in 1882 at Argenteuil near Paris, received a good technical training at several private art academies. About 1907 Braque and Picasso began to do geometric abstractions from nature and 'Picasso enjoyed calling Braque his "cher maitre." Later Picasso remarked that Braque and James Joyce were the "incomprehensibles whom anyone could understand." In the War Braque served as a lieutenant of infantry, was severely wounded, won the Croix de Guerre. Since the War, while his good friend Picasso has leaped from style...
...born of poor parents in Canada, forestalled tuberculosis by hiking from Ontario to Alaska. Settling in Seattle, he got into Seattle's municipal power business at the beginning, has been there ever since so effectively that Seattle has lighting superior in quality and in cheapness to many bigger U. S. cities. Municipal control of power-is something of a fetish in Seattle and City Light Superintendent Ross became so idolized that when Mayor Frank Edwards fired him, the voters promptly fired Mayor Edwards by recall...