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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived in this vicinity and held a post as second principal violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after which he resigned to devote himself to composition. He was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, in 1861, coming to America as a young composer-violinist. He is one of the earliest exponents of Impressionism in America, but his feeling for melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary...
This afternoon the Ambassador will inspect the special exhibits in Widener Library which have been set up in his honor. The collection includes the most important French books belonging to the University along with others lent by collectors, the earliest of which was made in 1380. He will also visit Fogg Museum where there is a display of French paintings and drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries...
Last week Dr. Currelly mailed a cautiously documented story on the Beardmore Viking to a British magazine. Said he: "They are the earliest objects found left by white men on North America...
...blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest possible moment." Though the Townsend Plan is officially cold-shouldered by the Administration...
...nearby Harvard Club (his Brooklyn home was too far away) or in his office across the hall from the studio itself. His blue-eyed wife. Baroness Olga von Norden-flycht, brought hot food and coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias to straight factual reporting...