Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From New London, a CRIMSON reporter gave the Varsity boat a slight edge over the Elis, but considered the Freshman doomed to defeat. As it turned out, the Yale Varsity came up with a three length victory over the Varsity which was then described as "inexperienced and untried," while the Crimson Freshman experienced little trouble in turning in an easy victory when the Eli yearlings craft sank from under them after a mile and a half...
Owner John ("Lucky") Dewar, the whiskey magnate, watched through high-powered binoculars as Richards rode Tudor Minstrel three miles over the downs. London bookies, assuming that Richards will ride him (though he cagily hasn't said so yet), backed Tudor Minstrel's Derby odds down almost to even money. Wonder Horse Tudor Minstrel, a three-year-old, has never been beaten in the six times he has raced, and Richards has ridden him every time...
Wealthy (Beecham's Pills) Sir Thomas has had his way about his favorite soloist, for London's new Royal Philharmonic was his own. (He had organized it because, he explained, "There is no existing British orchestra of a high enough standard to maintain my reputation...
...once told me there were only two people who could play a Mozart concerto-and he was one of them. Wild horses won't drag the other name from me. . . . The combination of my wife and myself is one that cannot be duplicated in 24 hours." Quipped the London Star, in a cartoon next day: "I have got tickets for Sir Thomas Beecham's next speech. I hear he will also conduct some music." Impresario Fielding resigned in a huff...
...class is the pianist Sir Thomas approached at week's end. He asked Pianist Artur Schnabel, perhaps the top living interpreter of Beethoven and Mozart, to play with the Royal Philharmonic next month. Schnabel, who was once Lady Beecham's teacher, declined. He was, he said, leaving London the next day. But, he added slyly, "if it were possible, I would have liked to have taken a chance on a Mozart concerto...