Word: gustavus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music news happens in New York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition...
Music-loving Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston., W. Va. used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town...
...Gustavus Myers in History of the Great American Fortunes . . . says Washington's fortune, at death, amounted to only $530,000. That is a considerable fortune for that epoch...
...GUSTAVUS A. BENTLEY Jamestown...
Plainly he believed and rejoiced. The Japanese feel that the Emperor's peace making is a major revolution like that of 1869. Kagawa explained: "Japan is like Sweden, which was once a very war like nation. Gustavus Adolphus fought many battles, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, but in the end Sweden found that...