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Scotland was burning last week, as any Clydesider in any pub would have told you: "A scandal, lad, a scandal. The Parliament allowing only half a day to a debate on the dismal category of trends and tendencies in Scotland. Ah, lad, the Scottish workingman is getting the short end of the horn as usual...
Fortune Gallo was a dreamy, 16-year-old Italian lad when he came to the U.S. His first job was at $3 a week, in an Italian bank, but by 1906 he had blossomed out as a band manager. When Mario Lombardi's South American opera company got tangled in difficulties in St. Louis, Gallo was called in to help push the operatic ship off the reefs...
...gabby sort, in fact, he was, and is, very quiet. . . . Another thing, he never addressed or spoke of his father as his "old man." And I do not care for anyone else to address his father in that manner either. ... It was Aldrich, even tho a "lad" that provided the most of the food on that voyage. It was he who sighted the islet. . . . You see, I received a telegram from headquarters, saying that my son would recount his experience adrift in a rubber life raft in an interview over NBC Blue network. . . . And it was the "Aldrich lad," that...
...small, trim-mustached man who looks like a blend of Adolphe Menjou and Anthony Eden, Claudio Arrau at 38 is an old hand in the concert field. As a lad of 20 he made a short U.S. tour in 1924, but failed to go over, and left with a poor opinion of U.S. musical taste. Europe promptly claimed him. Until the war, Pianist Arrau was content to divide his lucrative concert time between Europe and South America, playing 125 concerts a year...
Died. Albert Payson Terhune, 69, world's most prolific and successful writer of dog stories (Lad: A Dog;Buff: A Collie; etc.); in Pompton Lakes, N.J. He wrote stories about human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story. A jut-jawed, athletic heavyweight, who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries, he wrote eleven hours a day, six days a week for some 30 years. His kennels, Sunnybank, became the most famed collie kennels...