Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : SYMPHONY IN F MINOR (B.B.C. Symphony; composer conducting; Victor: 8 parts). Well-knit, rugged contemporary symphony by England's No. 1 composer...
...betweens who sign up U. S. lecturers, arrange speaking dates, collect from local committees, are a tightly-knit, secretive, high-pressure group of Manhattan agents who have field representatives scattered throughout the U. S. They get 25% of lecture fees, 50% if they also supply railroad fare. Biggest of the four firms dominating the field is that of William Colston Leigh, burly, smartly-dressed Manhattan businessman who handles Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Roosevelt, some 37 other ranking literary figures. Oldest in the business is William ("Pop") B. Feakins, whose 35 authors, including leftists like John T. Flynn and rightists like Lawrence...
...Mice and Men (by John Steinbeck: produced by Sam H. Harris), like the best-seller it faithfully follows, takes a squinty look at life among the bindle stiffs, reports out of the side of its mouth in short, hair-raising words. A soundly written, expertly produced play, its close-knit suspense timed to the last held breath, it seemed fated by first-nighters' extraordinary enthusiasm to extraordinary success. Some partisans, reading between its hard-bitten lines a sweeping social preachment, freely prophesied that it would win the Pulitzer Prize. Even those who saw in it only a macabre folk...
...dainty little Rose Markward married a knit-goods salesman named Charles Briggs Knox who had precisely $11 left after he had paid the minister. By 1889 the thrifty Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still...
...Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann broke bones in his left arm and right hand. "I shall never be able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java, laid low by an attack of pneumonia that endangered his life...