Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Christmas the U. S. Maritime Commission freighter City of Dalhart hove to off Pitcairn. Out rowed a Pitcairner with two gift parcels, one for Mrs. Hall, the other for DeGhett. On the way home the City of Delhart's Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said...
...batch of Treasury men lounged elaborately around at the pier. Into this ambush walked Amateur DeGhett. At midnight he finally induced the T-men to stop third-degreeing and open the packages. In them they found a walking stick for DeGhett, a hand made basket for Mrs. Hall...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony Society gave its $1,000 annual prize "for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer" to blond-mustached David Van Vactor of Evanston, Ill. Last week Composer Van Vactor conducted his prize-winning Symphony in D at a Philharmonic concert in Carnegie Hall, a piece of sound musical grammar & syntax, with considerable Sibelius influence. Incidentally, it made critics wonder again at the complete anarchy of the music market. Sample prices paid other composers : Schubert for his song Die Post: 20?; Frank Silver, for his and Irving Conn's Yes, We Have No Bananas...
...heels of Swingster Benny Goodman, who had just finished another genteel Carnegie Hall venture (TIME, Jan. 23), trod last week another classically-minded swingster. At a concert by Manhattan's year-old Bach Circle, Negro Swing-Pianist Teddy Wilson delicately pecked an 18th-Century harpsichord. Playing Bach's Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords and Strings with Harpsichordist Yella Pessl for a partner, Harpsichordist Wilson forgot all about his pedals, stomped out Bach's rhythm with one foot...
Oldtime Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, 51, last year chosen by the Baseball Writers Association to join the 13 immortals in baseball's Hall of Fame, was discovered sharing the bill with "Sealo -Half Boy, Half Seal" and "Professor Heckler's Trained Flea Circus" in a Manhattan nickel museum...