Word: cincinnati
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William Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens; Victor; 6 sides). Fine first recording of a pulsing score. Lanky Composer Walton wrote it for Heifetz in 1939, but the composer, a British ambulance driver, never heard his work out loud until this recording was sent to England by Clipper...
Reform Jews got a new executive director last week for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. This job, equivalent to the top-paid post in U.S. Protestantism's Federal Council of Churches, went to slim, youthful-looking Rabbi Nelson Glueck, 41, of Cincinnati...
...yesterday's meeting the following men took over positions not on the Executive Board: Eugene Wulsin of Eliot House and Cincinnati, Ohio, as News Editor; and Myron S. Kaufmann of Belmont and Adam Yarmolinsky of Dunster House and New York City as Assistant Editorial Chairmen...
...soft light on the dirty sidewalk, the modest little brass sign--"The Crimson." Vag turned in at the door, with a mental prayer that none of the editors would forget to be there. They hadn't: Cleveland, Brookline, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Cincinnati and New York--what a joyous progeny of Uncle Sam! And there, hanging from the chandelier grinning inanely was Inchball, good old Feather stone cough, who never failed to wing his way from Shangri-La for this sad, glad occasion. Vag felt a sudden exuberance, even before the punch was made; he was amoosed though confoosed...
...gifted, he spoke as a citizen-about-to-be on the Justice Department's I am an American radio program. A neat, nimble pianist, he gave one of his infrequent Manhattan recitals. A fledgling composer, he heard the first performance of his rambling, Spain-inspired piece, Soliloquy, in Cincinnati, then joined the Cincinnati Symphony in a crashing performance of the Tchaikovsky "juke box" piano concerto...