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...York. Philadelphia, Chicago. Dowagers and their escorts pushed their way impatiently through the sidewalk crowds. Music students, shabby and excited, ran up the steps to their top-gallery seats. Out of the wings like ball-players leaving their dugouts came the big league orchestra players. Oboes sounded A. A buzz of tuning and the big-league captains appeared-Chicago's square old Frederick Stock; Boston's Serge Koussevitzky, aloof and immaculate; Philadelphia's Leopold Stokowski, blond-mopped and mercury-quick as he shot on to the stage; New York's big Bruno Walter who conducts...
...manager's office of the Shubert Theatre last week stepped a round-faced, grey-haired, solid-shouldered man to become Mayor of Minneapolis. He was Alexander Gilberg ("Buzz") Bainbridge, a political novice, looking older and wiser than his 47 years. As a Republican he had just defeated Farmer-Laborite Mayor William A. Anderson in a nip & tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully...
...Buzz" Bainbridge was born in Pittsburgh. A lisping sister called him "buzzer,'' gave him his nickname. He ran away, joined a circus, did theatrical press-agentry and 22 years ago became manager of the Shubert in Minneapolis. He married Actress Marie Gale who played ingenue parts in his Shubert stock company, helped him to clear off a $44,000 debt in three years. Most businessmen counted on him to manage Minneapolis as well as he had managed the Shubert...
Callers on Pilot Francis Monroe Hawks in the Manhattan offices of Texas Co. last week were announced in a curious manner. The reception clerk would turn to a telegraph key, buzz the name and business of the caller in wireless code. From his inner office Commander Hawks would buzz a reply. Reason: preparatory to a 25,000-mi. flight over the Pan American Airways network he is brushing up on his radio...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent his last week as a private citizen in a buzz of conferences and confusion, packing and play, travel and talk. There was little real work to be done before he took over the Presidency. His Cabinet was off his mind (see p. 12). Appointments to the sub-Cabinet and the diplomatic corps could wait until he got into the White House. He had written his Inaugural address. Most new Presidents orate an hour or more; he planned to speak for eight minutes, broadly outlining the "New Deal" and leaving its specifications to the message he would...