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Otto Schniebs is a solid little Bavarian, who has probably done more for the promotion of skiing in the U. S. than any other person. Until last year he was ski coach at Dartmouth College, where he turned out six championship teams in six years. His Dartmouth pupils, all very fond of him, constantly baited him just to hear him reply in his terrific guttural accent. A few years ago a pupil asked him what to do if, on a downhill run, he should suddenly rush upon a spot studded with rocks and trees. Replied astute Otto Schniebs...
...major U. S. orchestras, and with the Institute's Fritz Reiner on the podium they played the pompous Academic Festival Overture of Brahms. The date of the Hofmann Jubilee was also Rubinstein's birthday (Nov. 28). For this reason, and because Josef Hofmann was the only private pupil Rubinstein ever took-after the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children had his first U. S. tour cut short, and Financier Alfred Corning Clark came to the rescue with $50,000 to subsidize the boy in seclusion until he was 18-Pianist Hofmann and the orchestra performed Rubinstein...
...carrying up to 4,409 (2,000 kg.) Ib. payload. His speed was 267 m.p.h., four miles faster than the previous record which he himself established last July. With him flew his flying instructor, Squadron-Commander Colonnello Attilio Biseo, who when in Rome acts as personal pilot to his pupil's father...
...expedition during the spring and summer of the current year, Lake revealed that he will travel to the region of Lake Van, in the eastern part of Turkish Armenia. With him will go his wife, Professor Casey of Brown University, who is a former pupil of his, and two University of Pennsylvania professors...
...Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made her Manhattan debut five years...