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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toehold on golf fame in 1935 by driving to swank Winged Foot on the Sound in a $7 jalopy to win the New York State title; and 2) 26-year-old, icy-veined Marvin ("Bud") Ward, of Spokane, a golfers' golfer. Three years ago nobody had ever heard of him. Two years ago he lost to Johnny Goodman, one down, in the National Amateur semifinals, made the 1938 Walker Cup team on the strength of that. The U. S. lost the Walker Cup, but it was not Bud's fault. He won his match, against English Champion Frank...
Last week citizens of little Honesdale, scene of the historic sendoff, heard sad news. Because passenger revenue has fallen off sharply, Erie Railroad will shortly abandon its Honesdale branch, leaving the town without passenger train service for the first time in nearly 75 years...
Before its Harlem junket, last week's congress had its fill of erudition. The musicologists, whose line is musical research as opposed to musical performance, heard such typical papers as The So-Called Babylonian Notation, Mozart's Handwriting and the Creative Process, The Evolution of Javanese Tone-Systems. Delegates from France and Germany were kept away by the war, and the musicologists soberly discussed probable hindrance of their work elsewhere, applauded a message from French Novelist-Musician Romain Rolland: "In the field of art, there is not . . . any rivalry among nations. The only combat worthy...
...theory the delegates heard: a dozen concerts ranged in theme from music of the two Americas to Venetian and Dalmatian songs of the Renaissance. One program resurrected unpublished music by Handel, none of it performed since the composer's day. Enjoyed most by delegates and outsiders alike was a concert of medieval music at The Cloisters, Manhattan's museum-piece museum of Gothic art, where bull-necked French Tenor Yves Tinayre and a girls' choir sang motets, trouvere songs, Gregorian chants...
Astrology had a boom, in British newspapers last week as fearful readers pored over their paper prophets, hoping to foresee how the war would go. Most of them had heard the rumor that Adolf Hitler himself keeps a staff of five astrologers (TIME, July 24), who told him months ago that September would bring the climax of his career. If astrology had started Europe's war, Britons reasoned, surely astrologers could predict its course...