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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year between Hollywood and Manhattan by airplane, "Kosty" flew 126,000 miles, earned from four appreciative airlines a silver mug and the title of No. 1 air traveler in the land (TIME, Feb. 1). An accomplished orchestrator, Conductor Kostelanetz was at the same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes in lush, full-blown arrangements of popular and semiclassical numbers and this week on his radio half-hour for Chesterfield cigarets (WABC), he prepared to launch what his sponsors declare is a new musical style, presenting brief, "streamlined" versions of symphonic works...
This summer, said "Kosty'' last week, he discovered that "other leaders, men I respected, too, were playing popular music in such a complicated style it was hard to follow the melody at all. . . . We had reached a point where a lot of leaders were arranging their programs to impress other leaders. I decided I would not do that any more." In turning to reconsider symphonic music, it occurred to Kostelanetz that "sixty percent of a symphonic overture is development of the themes. That is intended for musicians and confuses a lot of other people. I think it should...
While other popular explanations of the week ranged from a theory that the market crack was another 1906 "rich man's panic" to the notion that it was a "capital strike" against the New Deal, one fact became increasingly clear: whether or not pessimism over fall business prospects was at the root of the market's drop, the market's drop had certainly dragged down fall business prospects...
...Popular belief was and is that only through luck has Harvard escaped serious injury through discharge of firearms. Some students kept what amounted to arsenals in their rooms...
...track there will be a newcomer--the Inter-House Fall Track Meet. This meet will consist of variously modified and unusual events. If one may consider the winter and spring meets of last year as indications of track interest among the Houses, the fall meet promises to be very popular. A week later, on Friday, November 12, there will be a fall handicap open to the entire University. A revival of this event seems advisable in view of the growing interest in intramural track...