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...December 13, will be conducted by Ernest Ansermet, substituting for the ailing Charles Munch. In many ways, a rehearsal is even more enjoyable than a concert. The informality contrasts favorably with the machine-like view one usually gets of an orchestra. Watching them chatting among themselves and pencil-marking their scores, one can appreciate them as human beings. Unfortunately, the audience could not hear most of Monteux's remarks. Perhaps next time a microphone will be placed somewhere near the podium...
...Laude. In Los Angeles, Orville Rambo, an armless midget who learned to write with a pencil held between his chin and shoulder, was sentenced to San Quentin prison for writing a worthless check...
Died. Sigmund Romberg, 64, who filled the world's ear with the melodies from more than 2,000 songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked...
...unnumbered hills of Korea. Back at the ist Cavalry Division's headquarters, Captain Richard K. Cole, 28, of Orlando, Fla., was waiting. A corpsman stuck his head through the tent flap and called out: "Patients for you, doc." Psychiatrist Cole picked up his only instruments, a notebook and pencil, and sat down on a packing case. The corpsman led the first patient in, handing his medical record to Cole...
Almost every morning he turns out 500 words on lined paper, writing in pencil-a slogging schedule that produces one of his beautifully turned books in about a year. Like most professionals, he doesn't wait to be struck by inspiration; unlike most of them, he seldom worries about his critics, especially the unbelievers: "They're so far from Christian thinking that they cannot enter into my world...