Word: gordon
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Along Fifth Avenue (music by Gordon Jenkins; lyrics by Tom Adair; sketches by Charles Sherman & Nat Hiken; produced by Arthur Lesser) is anything but Fifth Avenue-ish, and not often much credit to Broadway. An all-too-intimate revue, it bawls out brash ditties, features loud-colored, low-cut skits, winks its eye and wiggles its hips in such decorous Fifth Avenue spots as Washington Square and Rockefeller Center...
...Coolidge began a series of chamber music festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this...
...Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, made the survey to see how social and financial background affect a student's future hopes and outlooks. He intends to compare the results with surveys in other countries and cultures...
Blot on the Record. Everett was no longer defending the Germans, most of whom he believed guilty; he was defending justice. For two years, at his own expense, Everett pleaded his case. Finally, last July 29, an Army commission under Justice Gordon Simpson of the Texas Supreme Court was set up to review the records.* The commission corroborated Everett concerning the mock trials and did not dispute or deny the rest. General Lucius D. Clay had already commuted the death sentences of 31 of the 43 condemned Germans. In Washington last week the Simpson commission recommended clemency (commutation to life...
...Drohan, in his last appearance in Harvard athletics, took a handy first place in the dive. Amassing 91 points in his New York showing, Drohan was followed by teammate Gordon Weir who was making his first start...