Word: chautauquas
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...Town Hall, with the Bach Choir in the annual festivals at Bethlehem. Pa., and with the Juilliard Orchestra and Opera Company. Now 33. Bob Crawford is musical director of the Newark Music Foundation, radio conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, soloist and occasional conductor of summer concerts at Chautauqua, N. Y. Increasingly busy, he is a licensed airplane pilot; by swift swoops he filled close engagements this summer in Fredonia, N. Y., Mystic, Conn, and Bradford...
...week Bob Crawford was to set out from Seattle, Wash, on the most newsworthy trip of his career: a triumphant flying return to Alaska. He had flown across the country, taking with him Pianist Harrison Potter and Soprano Ruby Mercer, both of whom have been associated with him in Chautauqua, and as publicity man his Princeton friend Harvey Phillips. They would crate the plane, sail up from Seattle to Seward, Alaska, then fly to Fairbanks for the first concert on Sept. 17. There would be caribou and moose hunting, mountain-climbing, sight seeing, then concerts in Seward, Juneau, Seattle, possibly...
...made up in great cauldrons and served to all comers. Senator Brookhart attempted to deride Mr. Field as the "chicken stew politician" but the voters liked chicken stew, smacked their lips. Mr. Field attacked Senator Brookhart as a nepotist (TIME, May 30), accused him of being off on Chautauqua circuits when he should have been sitting in the Senate earning his keep...
Biographer Ida Minerva Tarbell's concern with business ethics dates from way back yonder, when oil was discovered in her native Pennsylvania hills. Her family cleared out of the way of the oil tycoons' sent Ida to Allegheny College. She worked with Chautauqua for eight years, then went off to Paris to study French methods of writing biography. Her work attracted Editor Samuel Sidney McClure then starting McClure's Magazine. Biographer Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from...
...Harkness and Mr. Duke passed by on the other side, as far as Piedmont College in George is concerned. No heraldic crests adorn the converted livery stable which serves as its recitation hall or the regenerated Chautauqua hall which is its chapel. Professor's get part of their meagre salaries in the form of peaches, potatoes, hams, or firewood from the college farm, and a complicated system of barter enables a farmer to pay his son's bill with so many quarts worth of tuition...