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...Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...
...buildings arising overnight from a swamp, this provision of every imaginable facility. And truly there has been a magic at work, a creative imagination embodying in material forms a spiritual force. The first donors, backing an un- formulated project, the many early helpers among business men, led by Major Higginson, who in those initial years gave unflaggingly of time and counsel, would, we may imagine, look with amazement upon this splendid scene. But they would also look with pride, and their pride would be justified, for they, too, share in this great achievement. A great seat of learning gave...
...Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan, Francis Lee Higginson and the chairman, famed Owen D. Young, was scheduled to meet in Manhattan at 11 a. m. Promptly on the hour they trooped aboard Director Baker's Viking, 272-foot seagoing yacht. While General Electric motors propelled the Viking down Long Island Sound they transacted business, pocketed the gold pieces...
...officials of the Harvard Athletic Association on May 3 should not have been printed tanent the raising of a ten million dollar athletic funds but on the following day President Lowell, after what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there was any truth in the story at all. Boston correspondents would be quite justified in asking Harvard authorities either to make up their minds or withdraw from such vulgar activities as publicity. New Yorker...
Married. Melville Elijah Stone II, of Chicago (Lee, Higginson & Co.), namesake grandson of the Associated Press' late general manager; and Katharine Temple Lapsley of Bedford, N. Y., granddaughter of the late Manhattan financier Howard Lapsley; in Bedford. Mr. Stone was once described and painted by Artist Thomas Casilear Cole as "the genuine, cleanminded young man of today in these United States" (TIME...