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...Prima Donnas Praised...
...mustachioed German physicist, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, published an enormous volume on the physics and psychology of musical sound. Its enormous title: Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Terser English translators called it Sensations of Tone. Composers and prima donnas paid little attention to Physicist von Helmholtz' monumental brainwork, but the science of acoustics was groggy from it for half a century...
When Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended from the Exchange last month for insolvency and theft of customers' securities, his older brother, Morgan Partner George Whitney, was in Florida on vacation. Wall Street took this as prima-facie evidence that George Whitney knew nothing of the pending debacle. Last week this view was considerably modified...
Unlike U. S. baseball, there are no highly-paid prima donnas in soccer. All players receive a standard weekly wage (?4 to ?8), are seldom singled out for acclaim by sportswriters. The team is the thing. Arsenal, the most famed team in England, draws the largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer...
Croil Hunter, president of Northwest Airlines, promptly called at the Department of Commerce. Considering Northwest's record as prima facie evidence of careful operation, observers regarded the suspension of Northwest's passenger license - not only for its Lockheed 14Hs but for all its ships-as punitive. They guessed that the Department of Commerce, up to its ears in criticism for having approved the fatal ship, would quickly restore Northwest's license, look for another goat. Said Senator Copeland, accident-conscious chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "Whether or not the structure of the plane was properly planned...