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...sons of a Russian immigrant, the Gomberg brothers grew up in a Boston slum with five other children, all but one of whom became musicians. "It was a question," says Ralph, "of who would get what room to practice in; being the youngest, I got the bathroom." While the other children were studying violin, cello and trumpet, Harold and Ralph took up the oboe, criticized each other's playing, wound up as scholarship students in Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Both Harold and Ralph got their jobs with their present orchestras when they were...
...passion that seems to run in families. The earliest famous oboe clan was that of Frenchman Jean Philidor, who played at the court of Louis XIV; after him, seven other Philidors put lip to reed. Today the reigning oboe family in the U.S. goes by the name of Gomberg: Harold, 42, is first oboist of the New York Philharmonic; Ralph, 37. is first oboist of the Boston Symphony. One night last week, at precisely the same hour, the Brothers Gomberg appeared before the men of their respective orchestras to perform as the featured soloists in two of the relatively...
...clothing industry, where the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union has long had its experts working with clothing makers to set piece rates. When it runs into a manufacturer who claims he cannot afford to pay the union's wage scale, the I.L.G.W.U. calls in William Gomberg, director of management engineering, who can often show a company how it can cut costs without cutting wage rates...
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370 (Harold Gomberg, with members of the Galimar Quartet; Decca). Soloist Gomberg models his phrases with an elegance that would have delighted Mozart himself. The strings are shadowed somewhat, but play well...
High point of the convention was when President Moses Gomberg of the Society gave Professor Linus Carl Pauling of California Institute of Technology a certificate and $ 1,000 for being the most promising young chemist in the country and President Frank Jerome Tone of Carborundum Co. a gold medal for being a fine type of manufacturer (TIME, Aug. 31). President Tone had only to say "Thank you." but Professor Pauling was obliged to deliver a long and learned exposition on ''The Structure of Crystals and the Nature of the Chemical Bond." President Gomberg listened raptly. For young Professor Pauling...