Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ottawa's Coliseum management is more familiar with agricultural fairs than with political conventions, but it hoped to be ready for the Liberals on Aug. 5. Stocky James Gordon Fogo, president of the National Liberal Federation, was equally hopeful of being ready and, after a 29-year lapse, equally unfamiliar with the problems of a national convention...
...string quartet was without a name, and about to disband. Its leader, First Violinist Jacques Gordon, had been ordered by his doctor to retire. Then Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the nation's No. 1 patroness of music, came to the rescue. She put up money for enough additional concerts to make the quartet's summer season possible. For one of the few times in her life, Mrs. Coolidge then asked a sentimental favor in return: would the quartet please call itself the Berkshire Quartet? It was the name which Mrs. Coolidge had given to the first string quartet...
Last week the new Berkshire Quartet opened its season atop Music Mountain, a hilltop near Falls Village, Conn., where the Gordon Quartet had played every summer since 1930. Most of the audience that gathered in the white, green-shuttered concert hall were summer residents in the Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look...
Allen D. Sapp, Jr. 1G, the George Arthur Knight Prize for the best composition in instrumental music; Allen P. Sindler '48, the James Gordon Bennett Prize for his essay "Political Demagogy in the Lower South"; Harry H. Eckstein '46, the Philo Sherman Bennett Prize for an essay entitled "The Sociology of Politics: A Study of Max Weber's Political Thought...
...GORDON JOHNSON...