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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rochester, N. Y.. city of cameras and music, is the hotbed of U. S. zither playing. There last week the United Zither Players of America gathered for its Tenth National Congress and, proudly led by the Rochester Zither Club, climaxed a three-day meeting with a grand plinkety-plink concert. There are 100 zither players in Rochester, all of Teutonic origin...
...chagrin of the clubwomen and President Lyons, who never misses an opportunity to proclaim the cultural advantage of "The Borough of Universities" (Fordham, N. Y. U.), less than 500 people came to the opening concert. Foreseeing deficits of $1.500 per concert, the thrifty backers of The Bronx Symphony backed out. Last week, for the time being at least, The Bronx Symphony appeared faced with the appalling prospect of meeting its contracts with Mr. Marrow and his men by holding concerts in Brooklyn or Manhattan. Wistfully to President Lyons the pressagent of the Symphony wrote that the performance had been...
...South football came later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test was revealing. Princeton repulsed the invaders...
...line to follow President Adams is 55-year-old Philip Adolphus Benson, president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank and therefore on the unit banker side. Elected second vice president last week was Robert March Hanes, president of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. A 47-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, he comes of a socially prominent family, is a Democrat and a Methodist, saw active service in the War. He was chosen for his important heirship-apparent largely because he is a fine example of the important, but independent, banker...
...Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew