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What the Adamses are to Boston, the Biddles to Philadelphia, the Pinckneys to Charleston, the Nevins are to Sewickley, Pa., smart suburb of Pittsburgh. So numerous are Nevins, rich ones and poor ones, that Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...
...Bertie" Nevin was born in 1862, son of a druggist and newspaper proprietor. Naming him was an inspiration. "High-strung" as a child, he grew up to look like his name. He took his first music lessons at 8, published his first piece at 11. He married Anne Paul, a childhood friend who bore him two children. During his short life, Nevin studied continuously in the U. S. and Europe, turned out a constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist...
Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
Married. Joan Diehl, 23, daughter of President Ambrose Nevin Diehl of Columbia Steel Co.; and Henry John Heinz II, 26. son of President Howard Heinz of H. J. Heinz Co. ("57 varieties"); in Manhattan...
Francis H. Glesson '34 of Newton was presented the Wingate Memorial Cup: Charles J. Nevin '34 of Caldwell, New Jersey, the Barrett Wendell Junior Trophy Bat; Paul deB. deGive '34 of Atlanta, Georgia, the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup; John Ware, Jr. '34 of Milton, the Angier Hockey Trophy; Thomas H. Choate '37 of Pleasantville, New York. The Bruce Finally Vanderveer Trophy in rowing; and Leonard P. Eliel '36, the Roger W. Cutler Crew...