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Conductorless ever since Fritz Reiner's angry resignation (TIME, March 8), Pittsburgh's Symphony Society had been borrowing any top conductors it could lay hands on to lead the orchestra, if only for a few concerts. There was one man in particular they wanted, and last week, when La Scala Milan's famed Victor de Sabata appeared for the first of four guest spots, Pittsburgh decided that a few brassy fanfares were called for. All of Manhattan's first-string critics were invited, and they accepted...
...achievements in the 1939 season were a repetition of his former triumphs, only more so. Once again he was a first string lineman on Fritz Crisler's great team of that year, the team that Tommy Harmon made famous. And once again he was Big Nine wrestling champion...
Under Coach Fritz Crisler, the Tigers rolled to a 19 to O victory over the Crimson, but all was sweetness and light.Said the Dally Princeton, "It is up to the present undergraduate body to make sure that the present bond of good feeling is further strengthened and cemented together...
Dies preferred to consider himself beleaguered from left and right, and so did his comrades-at-arms. In 1942, during intense floor debate, veteran Diesman Noah Mason listed the committee's enemies. He named Deatherage, Fritz Kuhn, William Dudley polley, and several groups he claimed were Communist fronts. Then Mason called the roll of the committee's friends, which included the American Federation of Labor, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Elks, and the Society of Mayflower Descendants. But Mason forgot to mention admirers from abroad. The Federal Communications Commission had solemnly reported that Dies got as much favorable...
When the House of Representatives set up a special committee to investigate subversive propaganda, in May of 1938, about the only complaint came from Fritz Kuhn, leader of the rambunctious German-American Bund. Kuhn charged that the man who mid-wived the new group, Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York, was engaged in unfair persecution of the Bund. Indeed, Dickstein had been attacking the Bund furiously. It was his idea that a small body of Representatives peering into "un-American activities" would scorch and harry Nazi and Fascist propagandists in the United States, and if Dickstein had been appointed chairman...