Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also just completed 20 solo records for Victor, and the Primrose Quartet, of which he is boss and viola player, had just muscled in on the front rank of U. S. chamber-music organizations. For him a half-dozen of the world's leading composers (including Paul Hindemith, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, William Walton) were busy writing viola sonatas, viola concertos...
Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto...
...last two years they have not lost a game, except to Tennessee in the post-season Orange Bowl game last year. Last week every rural radio was tuned in to the Oklahoma-Missouri game at Columbia, Mo. Oklahomans wanted their beloved Sooners to stop Missouri's fabulous Paul Christman. Stop Christman they did, but discovered that his less publicized teammates were good too. By the margin of an unsuccessful kick (7-to-6), Oklahoma was nosed out of the undefeated ranks and the Big Six title...
...they caught six white whales, one of which weighed almost exactly the same as Equipoise .when he died. The Whitney stables politely allowed them to take the organs they wanted from the great horse's carcass. Last week Dr. Crile's solid, grey research associate, Dr. Daniel Paul Quiring, gave the figures on whale v. horse at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Philosophical Society...
There was soon some criticism of Banker Cummings. In his spare time he was Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Another full time job he held down (at $15,000) was as trustee of the bankrupt Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway. He was also a co-receiver for Chicago Railways Co. and director of half-a-dozen big U. S. corporations, among them the Maryland Casualty Co., then in debt to the RFC to the tune of $17,500,000. The late great Republican Senator James Couzens moved to investigate the ethics of Mr. Cummings' $90,000-plus...