Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most swing enthusiasts are bored by highbrow music; most concertgoers are irritated by swing. But the world's No. 1 highbrow fiddler, Joseph Szigeti,* and the world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending...
Last week, at his annual Manhattan recital in Carnegie Hall, Fiddler Szigeti, with bespectacled Clarinetist Goodman as assisting artist, gave the new Rhapsody its first public airing. To play it Szigeti needed two different violins, Goodman two clarinets. To articulate Composer Bartók's complicated rhythms both Fiddler Szigeti and Swingster Goodman needed all the gumption they could muster. Because the rhythms were as Hungarian as goulash, perspiring Middle-Westerner Goodman never quite got into the groove. But Hungarian Szigeti went to town, rode his pony so excitedly he broke his E string...
...following men have contributed their services to the building of those who may prove to be tomorrow's great scientists and athletes: Richard Holder '40 and Donald MacD. Thurber '40 in radio broadcasting;. Theodore L. Lipin '42, Clifford S. Goodman, Jr. '42, Francis E. Condon '41, John Sinnott, Jr. '39, and Carl Weihl '42 in chemistry; Richard D. Schleuer '40 and Robert W. Hartle '42 in photography; R. Tucker Abbott '42 in nature study; Dewey K. Zeigler '41; Elliot Silverman IG in astronomy; David J. Myerson '40 in the study of guinea pigs; Eugene F. Putas '40 in ichthyology; Robert...
...Harold Goodman. British vice consul at San Sebastian in Rightist Spain, arrived at the border town of Trim last week on his way to France. The customs officers of Generalissimo Francisco Franco passed his diplomatic pouches but searched his unofficial baggage thoroughly. Well they might, for Vice Consul Goodman's baggage contained some very interesting items. Wrapped in one of his dirty shirts they found: 1) a collection of maps giving the positions of Rightist troops; 2) detailed reports of disaffection in Generalissimo Franco's Spain; 3) a list of 200 of the Generalissimo's spies operating...
...vice consul was deeply embarrassed. He said he had no idea where all this material came from, claimed that servants of the consulate had done his bag-packing. Mr. Goodman's explanation was accepted at face value but, with the full approval of the British Foreign Office, Rightist police immediately began questioning servants, secretaries and messengers of a half-dozen British consulates in Rightist Spain. If they found the person who had tried to use Vice Consul Goodman as a pigeon to carry military secrets to the other side, they failed to announce it. But a general spy hunt...