Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others, in Philadelphia: Blakiston, Davis, Lea & Febiger, Lippincott; in Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins: in Manhattan, Hoeber, Appleton-Century; in St. Louis, Mosby; in Springfield, Ill., Thomas. †Diagnostician William Osler, Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, Pathologist William Henry Welch, Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly...
...Harney, whose songs Mr. Johnson Turn Me Loose and You've Been a Good Old Wagon, but You've Done Broke Down were hits in the gay 'nineties. Last week 66-year-old Harney, forgotten in the era of swing, died of heart disease in a Philadelphia rooming house...
...Philadelphia, where Stokowski has his orchestra, friends confidently stated that the marriage would take place in Turin between March 15 and 17. Stoky, they said, had made his plans known in a week's end telephone call to his agent...
...symphony orchestras. Reason: both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Kansas City Philharmonic signed up permanent conductors. To Pittsburgh went pudgy, astringent Fritz Reiner who, since resigning from the leadership of the Cincinnati Symphony in 1931, has guest-conducted here and there and headed the orchestra department of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Kansas City signed its first long-term contract with U. S.-born Karl Krueger who, during the past five years, has been whipping its depression-born orchestra into a first-class organization...
...appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and 7) Rumania's Georges Enesco. To Klemperer went the job of rebuilding the new orchestra. He heard auditions, reshuffled the old personnel, sweated his musicians into top-notch form, followed with a series of performances that brought stolid Pittsburgh audiences to their feet, yelling & stamping...