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...print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...
Georgia, more spectacular of the two, boasts the most publicized player of the year. Every football fan who can read knows about Frankie Sinkwich's flat feet, his un-Southern background (Youngstown, Ohio), his prima-donna temperament, his peculiar ability to knife inside tackle and the fact that he made 19 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. Flat-Foot Frankie was the nation's No. 1 ballcarrier last year. This fall he has discovered that he has a slingshot arm as well as flat feet. In the first six games of the season he rolled...
Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
Brahms: Trio No. 1 , in B Major (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Emanuel Feuermann, cello; Victor; 8 sides). Three great artists, tops in their fields, submerged their prima donna instincts late last summer in Victor's Hollywood studios to breathe rich new life into an old trio...
Bung Young was the real prima donna. He carried on the golden bull (a vital part of the scene), carried it off, came back on, went back off, brought back the bull, and, in general, made a cynosure of his sinecure...