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Your Invitation to Music (Sun. i p.m., CBS). Guests: Contralto Martha Lipton; Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra...
Strauss: Fledermaus (Lily Pons, soprano; Ljuba Welitch, soprano; Richard Tucker, tenor; Charles Kullman, tenor; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; John Brownlee, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). The Met's hit of the season, minus Patrice Munsel (who has a Victor contract). Recording: good...
...nearly two years listeners and advertisers stayed away in droves. Then, almost overnight, the flood ran the other way. Chesterfield sponsored his daytime show and it began to sprout additional sponsored quarter-hours. Thomas J. Lipton Inc., searching for a new nighttime program, decided to take a chance on Talent Scouts. Godfrey...
...into the social whirl, quick-acting Sir Thomas, never a yachting fan, surprised everyone by issuing a transatlantic challenge for the America's Cup. During the next 30 years he combined yachting with business, raced five different Shamrocks against U.S. defenders, never won the cup. A year before Lipton's death in 1931, Comedian Will Rogers wrote a letter to the New York Times suggesting that "everybody send $1 apiece for a fund to buy a loving cup for Sir Thomas Lipton, bigger than the one he would have got if he had won." When the trophy...
Cheerful Loser Lipton, who left $4,000,000 to the poor of Glasgow in his will, was no loser at all on his own terms. At a dinner speech delivered during the height of his career, he succinctly summed up his philosophy: "A man may have many friends, but he will find none so steadfast, so constant, so ready to respond to his wants, so capable of pushing him ahead, as a little leather-covered book with the name of a bank on its cover...