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...dapper, long-nosed, quick-moving little Ravel visited the U. S. to conduct some of his own compositions with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony and other U. S. orchestras. Shy, almost hysterically affable as a conductor, he seemed continuously surprised and pleased that his music sounded so well. Once he lost his place in the middle of his own La Valse and had to be pulled through by the orchestra...
Promptly the protests started to pour in to Senator La Follette's office. In some cases at least the dapper little heir to the Wisconsin Progressive machine had apparently stuck his neck way out. The list had been compiled in large measure from questionnaires sent out to detective agencies. And some of their clients had used detectives, not for labor espionage, but for such humdrum matters as the discovery of petty pilferers...
That man is to be dapper, 55-year-old Frederick Dexter Corley, who began as a Field's stockboy 37 years ago, rose in the best Field's tradition to be president last year. As long as James McKinsey was chairman the presidency was an empty job. Now it is to resume its onetime importance. While President Corley last week pondered his future policies, certain hitherto unpublished details of the McKinsey management came to light...
...best way to stimulate a British husband and wife to breed, Humorist Herbert gravely advised, is for His Majesty's Government to provide likely couples with free holidays at the seaside. This drew guffaws, but dapper, dynamic Sir Kingsley Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into...
...musicians the two biggest living composers in the world are undoubtedly Finland's Sibelius and Germany's Richard Strauss (Salome, Der Rosenkavalier). U. S. audiences would probably include a third-dapper, chameleonesque Igor Stravinsky (Le Sacre du Printemps, Petroushka...