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...little-known facet of his exuberant talent. A harpsichordist for 26 years who has studied with the most publicized exponent of that ancient instrument, Mme Wanda Landowska, he tinkled bravely through a Haydn concerto, conducting the orchestra on the side as all performers did in the harpsichord's heyday, the first half of the 18th Century...
Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...
About one-half of all U. S. gypsum plaster is sold by U. S. Gypsum Co., a $60,000,000 corporation founded in the trust-making heyday of 1901, and always called by its management "Gyp." Gyp also sells prefabricated plaster called Sheetrock. Gyp's leading non-gypsum item is metal lathing to put under its gypsum plaster, and Gyp sells about one-fourth of all metal lathing in the U. S. Hard hit by the building depression, Gyp's profits sank as low as $1.599,000 in 1932, were $2,155,000 last year...
...heyday of absolutism a favorite sport of the Great Powers was partitioning Poland. Last week RFC Chairman Jesse Jones, who is something of a Great Power in U. S. business, proposed to partition a Class I railroad with 1,600 mi. of track and $100,000,000 of assets, good...
Decade ago the No. 1 business in race prejudice in the U. S. was the Ku Klux Klan which passed its heyday when the huge profits of its rulers were disclosed and some of them were sent to prison. The Klan still functions from its Georgia headquarters and claims to be coming back but the rise of Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts gave a new twist to the racial clothing business. Sheets were changed for shirts. New organizations sprang up in which Klan philosophy, Fascist ideas and economic nostrums were crossbred to appeal...