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Died. Walter Johannes Damrosch, 88, German-born music man who spent a full life as conductor, impresario and master of ceremonies bringing classical music to U.S. listeners, found time to do some composing of his own (The Man Without a Country); in Manhattan. During the '30s, his Friday-morning radio hour introduced the masters to millions of schoolchildren. "Realizing the joys that music can bring to men," he once said, "I have done my utmost to spread its gospel...
...Manhattan's Aeolian Hall one afternoon in 1925, Conductor" Walter Damrosch put down his baton, turned to the audience that had just listened to the first performance of a new work by an unknown young composer. Roared Damrosch, in facetious disavowal of music that he had nonetheless thought well worth performing: "If a young man of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder...
...friendly, even-tempered Democrat who lives quietly with his wife (the daughter of Conductor Walter Damrosch) in Manhattan, Tom Finletter seemed a good choice to settle the boiling controversy over aircraft procurement. Best bet was that Secretary Finletter would follow Secretary Symington's line: agree to a 48-group Air Force now, as the President ordered; keep plugging for a 70-group Air Force as the minimum safe air defense...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elaine Damrosch, 82, wife of Conductor-Composer Walter Damrosch, daughter of onetime Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate James G. Elaine; in Bar Harbor...
...Walter Damrosch, 86, leonine founding father of the New York Symphony, resigned as president of the august American Academy of Arts & Letters, which had elected him to the job seven times. "I think I have arrived at an age," said he, "when the position . . . should be filled by a younger...