Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically realized that they had to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
SIBELIUS: SYMPHONY No. 4, IN A MINOR: LEMMINKAÏNEN ZIEHT HEIMWARTS; INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO THE TEMPEST (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume 5 of the six-year-old Sibelius Society's definitive edition. The smoldering, cataclysmic Fourth Symphony is generally regarded as Sibelius' masterpiece, and Beecham's Londoners play it with devotion. Gaunt and enigmatic to those not familiar with Sibelius, it improves wonderfully with repeated hearings. The items that follow are lesser, lighter, more ingratiating. Neither is available as a separate recording...
...Congregationalist headquarters at No. 28; Fourth Ave., Manhattan...
Revolutionary Songs (Tues. 3:30 p.m., CBS). The Liberty Song, Bunker Hill, The Toast, Lamentation over Boston, Ode to Fourth of July resurrected from 18th-Century manuscripts by Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung for the first time on radio by Soprano Hollace Shaw, Tenor Charles Haywood...
Born. To Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, England's No. 1 tennis amateur and Phyllis Konstam Austin; their first child, a girl, in London. Next day, after staying up late to welcome his daughter, Tennist Austin defeated California's Gene Mako in the fourth round of the Wimbledon Championships...