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...businessman, soft-spoken Francis ("Hank") Knight, 59, is first-class: he is a vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. Musically, he admits that he is "a perpetual second fiddler." But he loves music, and has been playing chamber music (violin) for 30 years. Other Chicago music lovers have reason to be grateful to busy Banker Knight: he has seen to it that at the end of each year's Ravinia Park festival he gets the best of his favorite kind of music...
...When Hank Knight first persuaded Ravinia's reluctant executive committee to add a seventh week to the six-week season, they dubiously called it "crème de la crème." The first concert, with the Pro Arte Quartet, drew only 559 fans, but even that was 200 more than they expected. Since then things have picked up. His biggest triumph came last year when he got Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Violinist Jascha Heifetz and Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky to play together, and packed Ravinia with a record-breaking 10,000 fans (TIME...
...strong-armed hurlers are a rarity these days. Baseball games are often dragged out to dreary, argumentative, three-hour marathons and slow-moving, histrionic pitchers are primarily responsible for the delays. Last week, in an attempt to get back to the oldfashioned, snappy, two-hour game,* Cleveland General Manager Hank Greenberg tried a newfangled method...
Charley Ufford and Art French provided the backbone of the Yardling attack, taking singles victories from highly rated Ted Phenix and Hank Blodgett and then combining at first doubles to beat the pair again...
...French, second man for the Yardlings all season, has also had two losses. He will probably play Hank Blodgett. Third singles will most likely match Paul Trinchieri with Bob Dewey of Yale. Trinchieri, who started the season as sixth man, is one of the most improved players on the squad...