Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 1, your able book review editor passed up several fascinating books, chose for review a book about an erotic Russian musician whose chief claim to fame was he was homosexual. Yet on the same page was listed a book (but passed with scant attention) called Fifty Million Brothers by Reader's Digest's blue-pencil genius, Charles W. Ferguson. As a "Fergie" fan, I protest, not only at your slight to Fergie's book but your unfailing and sedulous attention to books with perversion themes...
Great is the name that President Roebling bears in Trenton. John Augustus Roebling, engineer, musician, favorite pupil of Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, laid the first plans for the Brooklyn Bridge. After the Civil War he and his son, the late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling...
...radiofolk dote on by flying from New York to Los Angeles and back on 13 consecutive week ends. In Manhattan he conducted a radio show; in Hollywood he would ask Lily Pons to marry him. On the 13th proposal she said, "Yes." Last week they were still unwed, but Musician Kostelanetz received a reward for his persistence...
Glad to share his publicity, four U. S. airlines got together, concocted an annual award for the nation's No. i air traveler. To Musician Kostelanetz went a silver mug for flying 126,000 miles in 1936, more than any one of the other 1,140,000 passengers. More significant last week were two other prizes presented for the first time -the Lawrence B. Sperry Award and Aviation magazine's Maintenance Award...
...BELOVED FRIEND"-Catherine Drinker Bowen & Barbara von Meek-Random House ($3). Any musician runs the risk of being thought queer, but Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination...