Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, indoor polo held its national tournament in Manhattan's Squadron A Armory. Most sensational performance: Clarence ("Buddy") Combs, son of a New Jersey horse trader, scored twelve of his team's 15 goals in the first game, six of its ten goals in the second, won the junior (medium-goal) championship almost singlehanded for New Jersey's Pegasus Club...
...This picture had last week the most expensive cinema première on record. To the little Kansas town whose history it purports to record, Warners transported trainloads of notables. One contingent of 175 stars, pressagents and columnists was brought from Hollywood. Another of 14 newspapermen was imported from Manhattan. Dodge City store fronts were dressed up for the event in old Western style. Its somewhat sheepish residents, at the request of Warner Bros.' publicity staff, grew beards, carried hoss-pistols, danced in the streets for 60,000 visitors...
...Last week John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, who is not generally considered a magician so far as programs are concerned, pulled an exciting Easter rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini...
When Oscar Bruno Bach was 18 he made a finely wrought metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII's study. A native of Germany but a longtime resident of Manhattan, Oscar B. Bach is, according to the current Iron Age, "probably the foremost metal craftsman of this country." He has done a great deal of impressive metal decoration for public buildings, rich men's homes, ships, mausoleums, world's fairs. Last week bemonocled, pipe-sucking Mr. Bach discussed with newshawks a metallurgical process which he had developed (after years of research), and which not only delivers stainless...
This little drama occurred during the Oligocene Period, some 30,000,000 years ago, in the Baltic region. Last week the shells of the spider (Oonopidae) and the bark louse (Psocidae), beautifully preserved in the amber, were put on display at Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...