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...Among those who could not or would not go were Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter C. Teagle. Among those who could and did were Cord Corp.'s President Lucius B. Manning, TWA's President Jack Frye, De Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl...
...tone poem, "Don Juan," by Richard Strauss is also on the program. Written in 1887-88, it portrays not Byron's, but Nicolaus Lenau's Don Juan--a hero who longed for the ideal woman and failed to find her. Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is a fitting close to this fine concert...
Although his language and his rhythms are modern, the world of this poet has much in common with that Gothic land of bleak plains, deserted cities, brooding cliffs and endless solitudes that characterized the poetic age of Byron...
Idaho's Republicans, at any rate, preferred their 71-year-old statesman to Townsendism. In the Republican primary Senator Borah got 30,000 votes to the 9,000 massive-browed Byron Defenbach got from hopeful oldsters...
Intelligent New Engenders were esteemed in Europe as citizens of a young republic who represented a kind of life Europe had never known. When wellborn, serious, intelligent George Ticknor traveled there in 1815 he met Byron, who was pleased with him; Goethe, who was also pleased with him. Ticknor was typical of the travelers who found intellectual stimulation abroad, brought back food for speculation that quickened the minds of a generation, yet did not lose his sense of allegiance and duty to his own country as did the later expatriates. At the end he is seen as a dry, superior...