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Last week old Pianist Rosenthal, 75, celebrated the soth anniversary of this first U. S. appearance. On the exact date of the former concert, November 13, Oldster Rosenthal prowled up to a special gold-lacquered piano in Carnegie Hall, bowed curtly before a tornado of applause, then pounced upon the opening measures of Weber's Sonata op. 39. Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still...
Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...
...York, worked as a tailor, personnel manager, ranchman in California, newspaperman, six-day bicycle racer, concert pianist and who settled in Paris "to study vice." Short, bald, shrewd and bespectacled, with something of the air of a country editor, Henry Miller says he wants to go off the gold standard of literature, to write the things that are left out of books...
...woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry him through our times and on into better times...
Captain Bobby Green, who is shortly to receive a gold football for his 60 muddy minutes of play, was the recipient of another gift he is sure to cherish. Eldridge "Big Fat" Greene '02, 60-minute Yale game center on Harvard's victorious team of 1901, rushed up to Bobby after the game and presented him with the old Harvard jersey he had worn when the Crimson downed the Elis, 22 to 0, 37 years...