Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have been experienced sure-voiced sopranos who have shown real feeling for Puccini's curving melodies. But as figures on the stage they have created little or no illusion. Last week Susanne Fisher of Sutton, W. Va., made her formal U. S. opera debut. Though hers was not an amazing voice, she did manage to be the most appealing, lifelike Madame Butterfly that the Metropolitan has presented in 14 years...
Neighbors in West Virginia knew Susanne Fisher as a plain, everyday child, daughter of self-respecting Methodists, who spent most of her time on her grandfather's farm six miles out of Sutton. As a matter of course she was taught to sew, fry chicken, make hot bread and pies. She was no prodigy. Practicing irked her. But she was so naturally musical, showed such talent for the piano that when time came for her to go off to school she was sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. There she discovered the voice that won her successive scholarships...
...component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither Social Register nor Who's Who, he has been sitting on Steel's directorate since 1919 as the equal of such men as Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan, Sewell Lee Avery, Walter Gifford, George Fisher Baker, Thomas W. Lament. He will continue to sit there after he starts drawing his pension...
...summer and like the good manager he is. President William P. Kenney started months ago to lay plans for meeting them. It is the biggest railroad maturity of 1936. Mr. Kenney's 8,300-mile system has been a good client of the House of Morgan and George Fisher Baker's First National Bank since the old Hill days...
...endow a Graduate School of Public Administration. The late great President Charles William Eliot first had the idea for such a school but alumni were apathetic. His project was finally converted into the gaudy, bustling School of Business, endowed with a whacking $6,000,000 by the late George Fisher Baker. So widespread was the apathy toward public service that when the New Deal created the first great demand for topnotch civil servants, no major university had a graduate school to train them. The fact that Harvard did contribute the greatest number of young New Deal recruits was largely...