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...audience this season has waited with more curiosity to read the criticisms in next day's papers. How would the big German please Critic Lawrence Gilman, sitting languid and aloof on the left side of the house? How would spare, dry William James Henderson react to him? Or Olin Downes, sitting a few rows behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing modesty and simplicity of attitude." Henderson let his Sun readers believe that things...
...list of qualifiers for the $7,500 Open Match Play Championship at Lake Merced near San Francisco, last week, were most of the best known U. S. golfing names-Billy Burke, Sarazen, Horton Smith, Cox, Diegel, Von Elm, Kirkwood, Golden, Olin Dutra and two San Francisco Espinosas, Romie and Henry, less famous than their brothers Abe and Al. Johnny Farrell had given up golf for a honeymoon. P. G. A. Champion Tom Creavy was there but he had a bad knee. Tommy Armour failed to show up. Walter Hagen, Amateur Johnny Dawson, Aubrey Boomer (British pro from St. Cloud, France...
...this year it may make a million dollars against $878,000 last year. In good times it employs 2,300 men; now it employs 1,500. It makes clay pigeon traps, sportsmen's targets and detonators as well as shells and cartridges, is affiliated with four powder companies. President Olin hates waste and laziness, does not like to hire baseball enthusiasts or golfers. The atmosphere in the plant is friendly and open, but whenever there is an explosion (on July 10, 1923, twelve employes were killed by one) first-hand information on the cause becomes scarce...
Last week massive President Olin was in New Haven. In the arms & munitions industry New Haven has long meant but one thing: Winchester. Since Civil War days Winchester has been one of the foremost names in the U. S. firearms business. Its .30-.30 became the standard deer rifle, its .405 caliber rifle was known from the day it was first sold as death to moose and elk, its 45-.90 probably killed more buffaloes than any other firearm. The company was one of the pioneers in the popular .22 rifle field, has also been a big maker of ammunitions...
President Olin's terms were simple: Western Cartridge would buy the Winchester business & plants (valued last year at $30,000,000) for $3.000,000 cash, $4,800,000 in preferred stock, $300,000 towards paying receivership expenses. Last week the Winchester reorganization committee consisting of Earle Bailie, president of Tri-Continental Corp. and partner of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and Medley G. B. Whelpley, president of American Express Bank & Trust Co., approved the offer. The plan then awaited the approval of the Federal receiver. When the deal is completed owners of Winchester first mortgage bonds will receive $50 cash...