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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MacDowell: Suite No. 2 ("Indian") (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Though he died in 1908, frail, mad, Manhattan-born Edward Alexander MacDowell still holds his title as No. 1 U. S. composer. His poetic "Indian Suite," regarded by some as his masterpiece, avoids tom-tomfoolery, sounds strangely like Sibelius. Brilliantly performed and recorded...
...Zoologist Gladwyn Kingsley Noble of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, fish are not gawping, cold-eyed nonentities, but personalities as ambitious and sociable as human beings...
Genius and Kallikaks. Whether children inherit temperament, intelligence, musical talent or various diseases is a genetic question that has long worried Manhattan Freelance Journalist Amram Scheinfeld. To solve his problems he consulted a score of famous U. S. geneticists, read several hundred treatises on heredity. This week Journalist Scheinfeld published the first sound, popular treatise on the facts & fictions of heredity.*Main theme of the book is that heredity and environment are a dynamic combination, that development of personality is not governed exclusively by one or the other. Some of his points...
...General Krivitzky had claimed that Stalin was trying to team up with Hitler, and the New Masses took a lot of trouble to discredit him. Last week, while the Communist press was stammering explanations of the Russo-German treaty (see above), the Post bought nearly a full page in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago papers to boast that it had predicted just that. "THIS NEWS DIDN'T SURPRISE POST READERS," crowed the Post...
Mozart: Quartet in G Major, K. 387 (Roth Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). One of Mozart's finest, given a carefully-tooled performance at Columbia's Manhattan studio...