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...always something to talk about. For many of his subscribers he had been too full of antics. Many were resentful when he arrogantly scolded them for applauding, arriving late or failing to appreciate some ultra-modern screeching. But Stokowski was not out for publicity when he made his peerless transcriptions of Bach. For years he presented them anonymously. He took infinite pains with the Youth Concerts and gave his services. No one was surprised when he received the first Philadelphia Award (a medal and $10,000), for outstanding civic service...
...music-publishing concern which has sponsored the works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Natalya Koussevitzky is rightfully proud of her husband's U. S. achievements. He has polished Boston's orchestra so that it again rivals New York's and Philadelphia's. He has given peerless performances of Ravel and Debussy, established himself as the greatest of U. S. program makers. Proud Bostonians have accepted him to the extent of making him a member of the Somerset Club, a Beacon Hill institution so exclusive that little Brahmins are usually registered for it immediately after birth...
...Boston Redskins, New England representatives in the National Professional Football League, will open their home season, Sunday, at Fenway Park, meeting the New York Giants led by Harry Newman, peerless passer of pro football...
Uptown Sinclair, peerless knight of things as they ought to be, has by the legerdemain of New Deal psychology, obtained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California, and now, two months later the bonds of the Golden State have decreased one-tenth in market value. Every indication points to the fact that this timidity of capital will continue until election, when, if the former Socialist is elected, it will turn to precipitate flight...
...little later, Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the American dramatic laureate, found his "Strange Interlude" banned to the purlieus of Quincy because the Back Bay would have no dealings with incest. And within the memory of the current college generation of the Morals Squad of the peerless. Boston Constabulary found it necessary to confincate certain literary works from lending libraries on the ground of offensive lecherousness...