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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp at one sitting. But respected New York Herald Tribune Pundit Lawrence Gilman unwrinkled his critical brow, crowed ecstatically: "Exceptionally great music . . . the greatest music composed by an American...
Henry Sigerist is considered by many to be the world's greatest medical historian. He reads 14 languages, has taught and lectured from Cornell University to Zurich, is an expert on such things as medieval prescriptions and the 16th-Century treatment of gunshot wounds. To Dr. Sigerist, however, medicine is not only a science whose triumphs are technical improvements, but a service whose success is measured by the ability of a small group of men to make mankind's life more livable. Even in his first enthusiasm over the U. S., Dr. Sigerist felt medical care was unevenly...
Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallography and Metallurgy, emeritus, died yesterday morning at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston, after a week's illness. He was 75 years old and was known as the world's greatest authority on the metallurgy of iron and steel, as well as the founder of the modern science of metallurgy...
...YORK--The name of George Sisler, one of the greatest first-basemen of all time, today led all the rest as he and two other diamond immortals--"Wee Willie" Keeler and Eddie Collins--were elected to baseball's hall of fame...
Sisler, now a radio sports announcer and High Commissioner of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, took his place in the Cooperstown Shrine, with the greatest landslide of votes in the history of balloting...