Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding sections are the cellos and basess, the latter with two men of considerable experience; the former with a man who has studied ten years and given several solo appearances. Chief needs still are for a bassoonist who owns an instrument, and for viola players. Considerable versatility is noted among the players; the head of last year's viola section will be transfered to oboe this year, a horn player has shifted to trumpet, and one man volunteered to play either the flute or the tuba...
...works of Sibelius have become an especial province of Dr. Koussevitzky in recent years, and the Finnish composer's Second Symphony seems to be a particular favorite. The combination of Sibelius and Koussevitzky is almost unbeatable anyway for the latter manages to realize the superbly tense restlessness which the former has created. The Second Symphony is in danger of being over-played at the present, but few can fail to enjoy the work...
Williams and Stillman contacted Cambridge police chief Timothy Leahy over the weekend, and although he agreed that the subject was a good field for investigation, he referred the matter to Colonel Charles R. Apted, '06, Superintendent of Caro-takers. The latter was also all for the idea but turned the job back to chief Leahy, in whose dominions panhandlers fall...
...Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer virtues are thrift, diligence, discipline. Last year a "security program" was launched to take 85,000 Mormons off Federal relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last...
...first time in a long-neglected corner of the vineyard, New England. In Boston last week arrived Dr. Carl Ferdinand Eyring, onetime physics professor at Brigham Young University, to be first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young missionaries to begin the work of evangelizing the new territory...