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...Ganson really liked anybody, almost everybody in the Dorchester School of Music admired him, almost everybody feared him. He applied the same pragmatic principles to the arts that he had found effective in business: he had no use for failures, however interesting. Young John O'Shaughnessy. general handyman of the School, had enough motherwit and social presence to get along with Mr. Ganson and to steer a safe course among the shoals of Dorchester's provincial-artistic society. When Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled...
...mountains of Kentucky, where life is lived much as it was in the 18th Century, Religion and its handyman Charity were pioneers. In small Beverly, Ivy, a few years ago, there was an Evangelical Station, one doctor, one nurse. In Hyden (population 320) there was a Presbyterian Mission, one doctor making occasional rounds. For the most part the district got its medical care from harridan midwives and "salve doctors" who peddled strange "yarb" concoctions...
Guest Norman Hezekiah Davis, Democratic handyman of President Hoover abroad, shared with Host MacDonald the chief honors of having brought Guest Baron Constantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, around from a truculent to a co-operative attitude. When the pallid, pompous Baron reached Geneva last week he carried a proposal for increasing Germany's "defensive armaments'' which struck Messrs MacDonald and Davis as an "alarming document." These proposals they had managed...
...coast downhill into disagreement and failure, the others tiptoed home one by one. The parley moved too slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate Davis as the lone survivor to carry on the U. S. job of trying to get Europe to disarm. In the months following the general conference...
...side, was put on sale last week in record shops all over the U. S. Raymond Sooy. who engineered the making of the original Caruso records, felt that full justice had to be done to his friend's voice. He consulted Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret, Victor's able handyman, who proceeded to memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra and. listening to the old records, conducted new accompaniments which would time with them exactly. Through two loudspeakers in a separate control room Engineer Sooy listened...