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Second Game. Outfielder Jimmy Foxx, the youngest Philadelphian, knocked a wild pitch for a home-run, his second of the series, with two friends on base. In the fourth inning the Athletics scored three times more and Manager McCarthy of Chicago took out Malone, one of his best pitchers. With one out, the bases filled, and the infield playing close so as to be able to field a grounder home, Cub Short-stop English boneheaded to second. Pitcher Earnshaw of Philadelphia tired but his successor, muscular Robert Moses Grove, proved that a good left-handed pitcher can do better than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...touched the bemuddled Cervantes knight with the tenderness of a great comedian. Not until the Beethoven, though, did he have material mighty enough for his greatest virtuosity. Ask any Manhattanite who is the world's greatest conductor and the answer, almost infallibly, will be Arturo Toscanini. Ask a Philadelphian and the answer will be, just as surely, Leopold Stokowski. Hence satisfaction, as blissful if not quite as novel, attended the first Philadelphia Orchestra concert given last week, a day after the Philharmonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Overture | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...centered about the resignation of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14). Many Robbins-supporters believe that the Dean resigned because Bishop Manning, with whose high-church views Dean Robbins did not entirely hold, was "autocratic." Bishop Garland in Philadelphia is not "high church." But last week, many a Philadelphian, pondering the parallel, wondered if it was not a fear of "autocracy" that was keeping potential young coadjutors away from Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop's Dilemma | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...results, in the form of phonograph records, will be put on sale in September at $1 each. Dr. Greet expects to make 14 records by December, including those of a Manhattan truckdriver, a Tennessee mountaineer, a pure Philadelphian. Eventually, he hopes to make 50 records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harrse, Hoss, Hawse | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Museum exhibited several loan collections of an interesting but not startling nature. It will require many years before the magnificent edifice, built upon Greek lines out of polychromatic stones, can secure paintings which justify either its exterior or the panegyrics lavished upon it by onetime Senator Pepper and Philadelphian news-sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Penn Museum | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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