Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finishing in the same number of strokes as the barnstorming British Professionals Harry Vardon & Ted Ray, the U. S. Open Golf Championship ended in a three-way tie. Identical scores of 284, after three days of nerve-racking play over the sun-baked Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, were hung up by Craig Wood, Denny Shute and Byron Nelson...
...time she went to Berlin in 1924, as chief of the Philadelphia Public Ledger bureau, she had a Richard Harding Davis reputation. But she had the good sense to stop trying for scoops and to study the temperament and philosophy of the German people. She made such a thorough job of it that she still knows Germany as well as she knows the U. S. Hostile critics have said she knows it better...
...Marian Anderson, male chorus of the University of Pennsylvania Choral Society, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides). The Rhapsodie, to gloomy verses by Goethe, nobly sung; the Lieder overdressed by orchestral accompaniment...
Harl McDonald: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine, pianists, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 6 sides). By the Colorado-born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...
...first Baldwin locomotive (third in the U. S.) was born by a Caesarean operation. In 1832, when ex-Philadelphia Jeweler Matthias W. Baldwin finished work on "Old Ironsides," his first born, he found it too big to go through the exit of his tiny shop. So, vowing he was through with locomotives, he cut a hole in the wall. But "Old Ironsides" surprised him, hit 28 miles an hour on the six-mile Philadelphia-Germantown run. That was fast enough to earn immortality as a locomotive pioneer. For Old Ironsides the end came in 1857 when a Vermont landslide mummified...