Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HAYDN: SYMPHONY No. 93 IN D MAJOR (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). A famous Haydn conductor directs a top-flight Haydn symphony in top form...
BRAHMS: SONATA IN E FLAT MAJOR FOR VIOLA AND PIANO (William Primrose and Gerald Moore; Victor: 6 sides). Brahms wrote this sonata originally for clarinet, then made his own arrangement for viola. NBC Symphony's William Primrose, widely regarded as today's No. 1 violist, gives it an impeccable performance...
CESAR FRANCK : CHORAL No. 1 IN E MAJOR FOR ORGAN (AlbertSchweitzer; Columbia: 4 sides). On the famous organ at Ste. Aurelie, Strasbourg, Organist Schweitzer plays Organist Franck's score as Franck himself might have played...
...four of the major U. S. airlines with his contention that the logical metropolitan air terminal for mail, express and passengers was not Newark but New York City. Laughed out of his lethal scheme to set an airport on Governor's Island, right under the skyscraper windows of downtown Manhattan, the Little Flower, a harum-scarum War flyer on the Italian front, was then battling in behalf of Floyd Bennett Field, which had been begun in boom times by nifty Tammany Mayor Jimmy Walker on the Brooklyn shore of Jamaica Bay. Floyd Bennett had advantages over smelly Newark...
First step came last month when Connolly split the joint management of the two dailies, appointed Hearstling Merrill C. Meigs publisher of the American, Advertising Executive Harry A. Koehler publisher of the Herex. To infuse life into the moribund Herex, Connolly performed a major operation. This week, aided by red flares and sound trucks, red-capped newsboys hawked the first issue of the Herex as a tabloid. To give the tabloid zip, Connolly turned it over to onetime Herex Managing Editor Walter Howey, immortalized as the prototype of all man-eating managing editors by Playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur...