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...mother, an opera singer of Warsaw, and his father, who had taught him to play the piano so well that he was already the talk of Europe. Soon, from out front where 3,500 witnessed the boy's performance of man-sized works, Casimir. Hofmann and his wife heard thunderous applause, cheers and bravos for small Josef Casimir Hofmann...
Without calling the roll of all great musicians, TIME suggests that the following bear out its generalization: When he was 4, Beethoven began studying music, knew as much as his teacher-father by the time he was 9. Other first appearances: Heifetz and Elman at 5, Mozart and Josef Hofmann at 6, Fritz Kreisler at 7, Chopin at 8, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Rubinstein, Harold Bauer at 9, Cesar Franck and Schumann...
Since the given age of six. Pianist Ruth Slenczynski, now 12, whose garrulous father has been her only teacher, has been prodigious; critics now think she may play through to greatness, as have Menuhin, Kreisler, Hofmann, Heifetz...
Last week Detroit was chuckling over a new U. A. W. story. Of the 250 Detroit members of the United Office and Professional Workers of America, a three-month-old C. I. O. affiliate, about 50 are employed in the Hofmann Building offices of United Automobile Workers of America. Led by Bookkeeper Muriel Jenkins the U. A. W.'s office workers last week presented formal demands to the U. A. W. management. Like the good unionists they are, the office workers wanted such things as the closed shop, vacations with pay, a 35-hr, week, time & one-half...
...headquarters were in a high huff. Loudly-and correctly-they pointed out that U. A. W. was already living up to most of the U. O. P. W. A. demands except on minor points like seniority, lighting, restrooms. As for lighting and restrooms, that was up to the Hofmann Building management, not the U. A. W. management. Speedy negotiations leading to a formal contract signed by U. A. W. President Homer Martin were predicted...