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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Essential Condition. If Boston was pleased with Munch, there were also reasons why Munch could be pleased with Boston. As U.S. cities go, it had a long tradition of serious music: it had celebrated the end of the War of 1812 with performances of portions of Haydn's Creation and Handel's Messiah. Boston also boasted a club unique in the U.S. Ten or twelve times a year, as their ancestors have done since 1837, members of the exclusive Harvard Musical Association go to their paneled clubrooms on Beacon Hill for a smoker of chamber music, beans, beer...
Once a year, however, as long as he keeps the Boston conductorship, Munch expects to go back where they know about such things. His two-year contract (with an optional third) allows him plenty of free time in the summers, and he and Madame Munch plan to spend their vacations in Paris...
...that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...
Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with...
...Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did have funny moments; but they were mere lampposts on a long, dark, unpaved, downhill road...