Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always had a romantic appeal for ladies, the tendency has been for many a layman to regard him as a little man of music, a sentimentalist whose place is in the parlor. Chopin acquires great stature when played by great musicians. An unreserved admirer is British Pianist William Murdoch who this week tells Chopin's story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those of most composers. His parents were not rich but neither were they poor. They realized...
...play at a soiree. Instantly he was Society's pet, besieged by highborn ladies who begged him to give them lessons. Then, like a villain in a play, George Sand strode into his life, flaunting her male attire, puffing at a black cigar. According to Author Murdoch, that bestselling novelist was "an odd mixture of vulture and vampire." Once a lover was discarded, she used him cruelly for copy and the disguise was thin. In 1838 Chopin and Sand acknowledged their liaison by going together to the Island of Majorca where Chopin almost died of his first tuberculous attack...
Young, wiry Mr. Grubb, who is the nephew of Yachtsman Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, is being boomed for president of the New York Stock Exchange. At a big testimonial banquet for the most popular Curb president in years, Richard Whitney, noting such reports about his possible successor, generously declared: "I sincerely hope that is right and E. Burd Grubb will be a president of the New York Stock Exchange-and soon...
...Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth...
Composing the committee are: Lanrens D. Dawes '85, chairman, Harold E. Jahn '86, William Lawrence '37, Raymond J. Makowsky '86, Robert H. Rawson '86, and Allen B. Rider '85. The Patronesses will be Mrs. Walter E. Houghton, Mrs. Donald H. McLaughlin, Mrs. Perry Miller, and Mrs. Kenneth H. Murdoch...