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...outer reception room, and the main room, which contains Harry Widener's 3,500 books. The main room, made in carved English oak, was panelled by a London firm and put together here. Dominating the room is a huge portrait of Widener, painted from a photograph by Gabrielle Ferrier...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Julius Patzak, tenor; the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; London). These six songs were intended as Mahler's ninth symphony, but a personal superstition made him forgo the title. The dusky warmth of Ferrier's singing, the bright clarity of Patzak's, and the lurid orchestral colors run the gamut of gaiety and sadness. A definitive recording...
...also, if he chooses, go to hear European artists who might never have crossed the Atlantic except for their record successes. London Records takes credit for popularizing Singers Kathleen Ferrier, Hilde Gueden, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Schoeffler; Pianists Clifford Curzon, Friedrich Gulda; Conductor Ernest Ansermet. Cloe Elmo, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo and Cesare Siepi were introduced to U.S. collectors by Cetra-Soria records before they were hired by the Metropolitan Opera...
...after both pros had wound up in a 72-hole tie, each with a 12-under-par total of 276; at Chicago's Tam O'Shanter Country Club. To Winner Boros went the biggest prize in golf history: $25,000. Other 72-hole leaders: Jim Ferrier and Roberto de Vicenzo, 277; Sam Snead and Dave Douglas, 279; Henry Ransom and Lew Worsham...
...Louisville final last week, Jim Turnesa met Melvin ("Chick") Harbert, 37, a slam-bang hitter who had also failed as a P.G.A. finalist (against Jim Ferrier in 1947). Harbert's booming drives consistently outdistanced Turnesa in the morning 18 holes. At the lunchtime break, Turnesa, after getting in and out of five traps, was three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match...