Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intellectually the new building is a monument to the efforts and foresight of two people: to Russian Nikolai Sokoloff, only conductor the Orchestra has had, who at last week's dignified housewarming gave a particularly eloquent reading of Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler's Evocation, composed specially for the occasion; and to Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra's enterprising manager, out of respect for whom John Davison Rockefeller Jr., a one-time Clevelander, gave $250,000. Financially the rest of the credit goes to Dudley Stuart Blossom, tireless campaigner who with his wife gave some...
...Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead...
...games at the Arena last Saturday while A. L. Watkins '31 won the 40-yard dash and the 1934 one-mile relay runners outdistanced M. I. T. and Dartmouth freshmen. Crimson runners placed in the two-mile relay and 45-yard high hurdles and Oscar Sutermeister '32 tied with Martin of the B. A. A. for second in the pole vault event. Monty Wells took the 45-yard hurdle race from E. E. Record '32 in a spectacular dash. In the N. E. A. A. U. meet in the afternoon G. N. Barrie '32 placed first in the 1000-yard...
...only knockout came in the 160-pound class when William Cooper '33 gained a technical knockout in the second round after Martin of Dartmouth was unable to continue. The other Harvard wins were in the 125-pound and the 175-pound classes by Arthur Palaza '32 and Adlis respectively...
...pound class: Cooper defeated Martin (D) Technical knockout in the second round...