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...often that a program of organ music from the Thorough Bass period is given, like the one to be presented today at the Germanic Museum. With the exception of William Fenton, whose Concerto in B flat major (No. 3 for organ and orchestra opens the program, each of the composers represented has made some definite contribution to the literature of music...
...Courier-Journal stopped its presses for one minute on the 100th birthday of its founder, the late Colonel Henry Watterson. Of that fierce, opinionated, ex-Confederate cavalryman, who made the old Courier-Journal a fiery organ of Southern Democracy, Arthur Krock (onetime editorial manager of Marse Henry's paper) wrote in the New York Times: "Mr. Watterson was the last of the great personal editors. . . . His writings were more widely reprinted, quoted and heeded, than those of any other journalist; and his personality became a legend. . . ." For weeks the Courier-Journal had been in the throes of a mysterious...
...latest issue of the Harvard Progressive has contributed no small part to the steady improvement of the magazine in the past two years. Remembering the single mimeographed sheets that once passed as the organ of progressive thought at Harvard, readers will hardly recognize the February 1940 issue as the same magazine. Twenty-three pages long, attractively illustrated, and cleanly printed, it will give the Progressive a secure place in the family of Harvard undergraduate publications...
...Bill Gropper married Bacteriologist Sophie Frankle. The two of them built their own nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Soon after their marriage they had a year in Russia, where Gropper worked briefly on Pravda (official organ of the Communist Party), learned to call electric lights "Lenin lamps," had a grand time. Gene, their elder boy, was born in Paris on the return trip. To the New Masses went a cartoon by Artist Morris Pass of the proud father wheeling Gene in a baby carriage. Caption: "Made...
...anniversary issue. Still a champion of one particular kind of inquiry-i.e., by-line exposés and rascal-kicking-The Nation proudly printed a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Wrote the President: "I think no one would ever accuse The Nation of seeking to become a popular organ. . . ." But Founder Godkin would have suffered a severe shock could he have seen last week how far The Nation had gone along the road on which he started it. For Godkin's politics were fairly spongy compared to The Nation's present devout and single-minded Leftism...