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Elected conductor of the Glee Club in 1934, Woodworth has gradually swung to a belief in the strong and simple in music as well as in a love for Nantucket and old railroad locomotives. Listening to recordings made seven years ago, he says blushingly, "I don't see how I could have been so romantic then." Although Woodworth follows Professor Davison's precedent in presenting a majority of classical choral music, including a yearly rendition of Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he still has a weakness for modern American classics, ranging from Hindemith to "Casey Jones...
...anniversary issue and lingered over its eight color pages of U.S. art. There were 25 paintings including four of nudes and all had appeared in the magazine before. Chief McMahon went to the district attorney, who agreed that some of the pictures were "indecent." Forthwith, in the counties of Nantucket, Dukes and Bristol, LIFE's issue was ordered off the newsstands. In Manhattan, LIFE Publisher Andrew Heiskell told reporters "ridiculous. . . . Certainly our readers would not wish to have a police chief decide what is, and what...
...fill-'er-up-and-let's-go time, and Americans were gadding about as never before. They were off to Albuquerque, Minneapolis and Montauk, to Eagle River, Nantucket and Oconomowoc...
...Girl from Nantucket (book by Paul Stanford & Harold Sherman; music by Jacques Belasco; lyrics by Kay Two-mey). Offering the season's most cranked-out tunes, most threadbare gags, most feeble-minded smut, and strangest notion of a ballet, The Girl from Nantucket rated -and got from Manhattan reviewers-the critical equivalent of a well-aimed flyswatter...
Elizabeth Janeway, whose first novel, The Walsh Girls, was a best-seller in 1943, has made Daisy Kenyan out of these fascinatingly unhappy people and their jittery world of New York, Washington, Connecticut, and Nantucket. At 32, Daisy is a beautiful, successful, emancipated magazine illustrator. For eight years her lover has been shrewd, rugged Dan O'Mara. Then she meets and marries high-strung magazine editor Peter Lapham...