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Second prizes of $35 each went to Jame J. Pattee, Jr. '41 of Winthrop House, and John B. Fisher '41 of Lowell House. Fisher chose Lincoln's "Second Inaugural Address," while Pattee's selection was Clarence Darrow's "Defense of Loeb and Leopold...
Second and third places went to George McLellan, Charles McCroskey, Frank Clancy, Jules Stich, Dudley Lamson, Jim Murphey, Leopold Ackerman, and David Poole...
Records: Jan Savitt has been gaining extremely well these days, his latest being "Rose of the Rio Grande," an oldie done in much the same fashion as the Ellington rendition, meaning it to be a trombone concerto in this case for Al Leopold instead of Lawrence Brown. Very fine playing, although a few of Leopold's ideas are lifted from Browns solo . . . Bobby Byrn's band is coming along in great shape. The twenty year old refugee from Jimmy Dorsey's outfit is turning out a steady series of good tune expositions, "Busy as a Bee" being" being his newest...
...considered to be as inadequate as this one. As a matter of fact, I can remember few recorded versions of anything that struck me as being so completely shallow and without not only comprehension of what the composer wanted, but what could be done with the score itself. Leopold Stokowski is often accused (and Justly so) of rendering Bach in a manner quite unlike what the composed intended, or what the "correct" interpretation is conceived to be. But at least, he almost always gives a rendition that is musicically fascinating no matter how you may disagree with his interpretations...
...Rathbone was at it again. So was the weather. It poured. But that did not stop 54 guests, representing most of Hollywood's international elite, from streaming into the plush-conditioned Rathbone mansion. Occasion was a party in honor of Polish:born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. London-born Conductor Leopold Stokowski, and Poland...