Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date music. Why, there's no question about it - anybody can improve on Sousa." Fearful that Captain Miller's crusade would leave the U.S. Army swinging its hips instead of its feet, old-guard Army musicians creaked with suppressed fury. One old Sousaphile, Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman, most famous of present-day U.S. concert bandleaders, rose to denounce this outrage. Said he: "Personally I think it's a disgrace! There isn't any excuse for it. Perhaps they think they can add more dash and appeal. But no one can improve on a Sousa march...
...witness was known as "Harry the Horse" Goldman. "It had just begun daybreak," he related, when he had found Hannah and Fight Manager Benny Woodall asleep together; so he just quietly "left out." Hannah's attorney burned him with a remark about narcotics. "I'm no neurotic," snapped Harry the Horse. "I never touch the stuff." Another witness told of the times he had seen Hannah and ex-Lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins together. Another reported on Dempsey's front-door entrances as Hannah's visitors left by the side door...
...knew one Benito Mussolini, the Socialist who had told him "Tresca, you are not radical enough." For the next 38 years this rotund journalist in the oversize black hat unceasingly championed the causes of the Left. In an earlier day he belonged to the same firebrand company as Emma Goldman and the I.W.W. His voice was raised in a long array of newspapers, of which the last was Il Martello (The Hammer). He campaigned in the Pennsylvania coal fields, in Manhattan's garment district. He scrapped with Communists, but above all with Fascists...
Every school day since 1899 Teacher Bridgman has marched with corpulent dignity through the gloomy doors of the Art Students League on 57th Street. Says he: "I have weathered the stormy days at the League when Emma Goldman, as well as other communists, lectured at the institution, shouting 'down with the Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged...
...swell his repertory, Goldman has composed 85 marches himself. Most popular of his marches is On the Mall. Written for the dedication of a new bandstand in Central Park, it so displeased Goldman that he shelved it. When he finally tried it out at an open-air concert, he directed with one hand, held his nose with the other. The roar of applause so surprised him that he nearly reeled off the stand...