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Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, young (39), huge (6 ft. 3 in., 237-lb.) Secretary of the Interior. Although he works like a piston, Cap Krug is still largely untried in the tougher aspects of his job. But he learns fast and has a stubborn core. One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station. At 30, he was TVA's manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed...
Katherine St. George, glib, chic, greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
Bohuslav Martinu, a Czechoslovak, William Schuman, President of the Juilliard School in New York City, and the Mexican virtuese Carlos Chavez are included among the distinguished musicians invited to make contributions. Martinu with Walter Piston, professor of Music, are composing string quartets for the opening program, and Arnold Schoenberg is preparing a string trio for the occasion...
...compositions being composed for the symposium concerts would of themselves make the event an important one in American music history. Some of the most important moderns in the world have agreed to write new compositions for the concerts, among the Walter Piston. Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith. Aaron Copland, and G. Francesco Malipiero...
French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...