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Kinkeldy, former professor of Musicology at Cornell, will he visiting Lecturer in music under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, which as in the past sponsored such men as Bela Bartok, Georges Euesco, Aaron Copland, Gustav Holst, and Hugo Leichtentritt. Kinkeldy will conduct a seminar in musical history this fall and will also teach the University's introductory course in music research...
...without dropping a set. Betz won the Wimbledon Singles crown, a glory at least equal to the U.S. championship. In Paris three weeks later, Osborne handed Betz one of her few beatings. The Betz Club romped up to Sweden, and played barelegged before 88-year-old tennis bug King Gustav. Then the other club members returned to the U.S., but Pauline headed for a Swiss resort (Gunten) to celebrate her 27th birthday with Millionheiress Barbara Hutton. They swam, jitterbugged and went mountain-climbing for ten days-Pauline's longest vacation from tennis in ten years...
...Gustav P. Heller...
Last week Mahler's widow, now living in Beverly Hills, Calif., published a biography of her husband (Gustav Mahler, Memories and Letters; Viking, $5). She first wrote her book seven years ago, published it in Amsterdam in 1940. Shortly afterwards she escaped to the U.S. with her third husband, Austrian Novelist Franz (Song of Bernadette) Werfelt† whom she met in 1917 when he was in the Czech army, married in 1918. Like many another Mahler partisan, Alma Mahler admitted that she wasn't always able to understand Mahler's music...
...escape. He had just started his tenth when he returned to the U.S. to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He soon became ill with a streptococcus infection which developed into uremia. Gustav Mahler, composer of nine symphonies, returned to Vienna on a stretcher, and died there...