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Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Oboist Marcel Tabuteau, Clarinetist Bernard Portnoy, Bassoonist Sol Schoenbach, Hornist Mason Jones; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). A sweet, 18th-Century woodwind "bash" (jam session), spotlighting the pure purlings and tootlings of Philadelphia's high-priced soloists...
...blocks east, atop one of the city's steepest, best sledding hills, Dean Mason Solt, 39, street-department worker, drove his twelve-ton street-roller around the curve, headed down toward the busy intersection. As usual, he shoved the gearshift into reverse. But the gears failed to mesh. He set the brakes, but already the twelve tons of steel were rolling, gathering speed down the steep grade toward the jam of cars, busses, children...
...college, N. Y. U., the same question came up this year, and was settled by the head of the University with the arbitrary method of forbidding any colored athlete from competing in a contest with a southern team. A football player was not taken on a trip across the Mason and Dixon line. A basketball player was not allowed to play in Madison Square Garden against a team of Southerners. Finally, despite protests from the entire student body and a sympathy strike staged by half his teammates, the Negro co-captain of the track team was ruled out from taking...
With Acting Master and Senior Tutor Seymour Harris heading a staff that includes Professors Leontieff, Mason, and Schumpeter, and Instructors P.M. Sweezy and J.R. Nelson, Economics is the House's strongest field. The outstanding History tutor is Professor Crane Brinton, head of the Department and resident in the House, while Assistant Professor Pendleton Herring, secretary of the Littauer School of Public Administration, is among the Government tutors...
Next day the council divulged a more damaging document: a report of the 1938 Communist Party convention in New York by one "J. Mason," believed to be a prominent member of Local 5. "Mason" referred to Local 5 as "our" (i.e., the Communists') local, and went on: "It has grown from about 300 three years ago to 7,000 today. We also helped set up the WPA and college teachers' locals of 1,000 each. . . . There are several hundred party members in the union. This is a big fraction and more than is necessary in our industry...