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...next season the Philharmonic's directors decided on a similar setup. They signed up four of the conductors who appeared this year (Walter, Rodzinski, Mitropoulos, Barbirolli) and a new one, Fritz Reiner of the Pittsburgh Symphony. They also invited Toscanini. Last week, the morning after the second Beethoven concert, came good news. The maestro's son, Walter Toscanini, walked into the Philharmonic office, told Associate Manager Bruno Zirato that his father had decided to accept. He will direct the Philharmonic's first two weeks next fall...
Some other outstanding members of the Crimson team, which beat the Boston Rugby Club by 24 to 0 in its first game two weeks ago, are captain Dick Simpson; Fritz Kempner, former English player; and Marsh Holleb, president of the club who is in his fourth year of rugby at Harvard...
...some 6,000 doctors who have fled from Hitler's Europe to the U.S., 3.500 have been licensed to practice. A few are eminent research men like the University of Chicago's Rudolf Schindler, University of Pennsylvania's Fritz Lewy, Bacteriologist Ernest Witebsky of Buffalo. But most have forsaken their specialties to become hard-working general practitioners-often in doctorless farming communities...
...still another. Perhaps the Nazis were simply getting set to ward off any Allied attempt on Norway. Although the Nazis have fortified key points from Trondheim south, northern Norway is far from impregnable. Last week, while Nazi Munitions Minister Albert Speer, successor to the late Masterbuilder Major General Fritz Todt (TIME, Feb. 16), sped work on defenses to the north, the Norwegians were tripping and clipping him with sabotage. One highly effective means was the touching off of fires in plants housing vital Nazi war industries...
...Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of J. P., wrote Citizens' Song for the Citizens' Committee for the Army & Navy, whose vice chairman she is. The song was sung by oldtime Soprano Anna Case (widow of Clarence H. Mackay), with Fritz Kreisler at the piano, at a beefsteak party in a Manhattan brewery. Chorus...