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...Minnie!" Thus do New Yorkers ritualistically hail the opening of the nation's oldest summer musicale-the 42-year-old Lewisohn Stadium Concerts. This week the subway commuters are thronging again to Lewisohn on Manhattan's upper West Side to hear the 43rd season ushered in by Conductor Pierre Monteux-and Mrs. Charles ("Minnie") Guggenheimer...
Died. Frank Silver (born Silverstadt), 58, longtime drummer and conductor of vaudeville-pit orchestras, who in 1922 collaborated to turn the cry of a Long Island Greek fruit peddler, "Yes! We have no bananas," into a song worth nearly $70,000-most of which he lost in the 1929 stock-market crash, and failed to recover in 75 lesser-known pop works, -such as Icy-Wicky-Woo and What Do We Get From Boston? Beans, Beans, Beans; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn...
...regiment of eggheads closed the gap in their ranks with a Draft Stevenson Committee, signed a loyalty pledge supporting their favorite candidate. Among the signers: Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish. Authors John Steinbeck and John Hersey, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Critic John Mason Brown, Playwright-Producer George Abbott, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
...Among them: Golfer Bobby Jones, Buckhead (near Atlanta); Boston Symphony Conductor Charles Munch, Milton (Boston); United Fruit Co. Board Chairman George P. Gardner Jr., Brookline (Boston); Biographer Richard Ellman, Evanston (Chicago); Ex-Baseballer Bob Feller, Gates Mills (Cleveland); Pediatrician-Author Benjamin Spock, Cleveland Heights (Cleveland); Martin Co. (aircraft) Chairman George Bunk.er, Englewood (Denver); Hockey Star Gordie Howe, Lathrup Village (Detroit); Architect Eero Saarinen, Bloomfield Hills (Detroit) ; Kansas City Star President Roy Roberts, Mission Hills (Kansas City); Douglas Aircraft Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., Rolling Hills (Los Angeles); Caltech President Lee A. Du-Bridge, Pasadena (Los Angeles); Architect Wallace K. Harrison, Huntington...
Snub Nose. The easiest, fastest cone to develop was the "heat-sink"' type, made of thick copper. Since copper is an excellent conductor of heat, the cone's front surface could stay solid until the whole mass was near the melting point. To many, it seemed obvious that a nose cone should be made slim and sharp-pointed, capable of piercing the atmosphere with low resistance. But the contrary proved to be the case. Dr. H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics argued conclusively that a blunt nose was better for the heat-sink cone...