Word: robinson
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Many U. S. music schools (e.g., Curtis, Juilliard, Eastman) maintain their own student orchestras. Yet, when new graduates of these schools try to get jobs with first-rate orchestras, they are generally turned away for lack of experience. In 1920, a red-headed teacher of music theory named Franklin Robinson finally realized that, because of this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony...
Died. Henry Mauris Robinson. 69, financier, friend and adviser to Presidents Wilson. Harding. Coolidge, Hoover; who attended the Paris Peace Conference, the First International Labor Conference, helped draft the Dawes Plan; after a fall; in Pasadena, Calif...
Settled. By Mrs. Edward Howland Robinson Green, red-haired widow of the late Hetty Green's son. and Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, his sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her-richest woman...
...cause of this silence on Ireland seems to be carelessness, rather than any premeditated desire to suppress the facts. Indeed, President Eliot, started quite a renaissance in Irish culture, and brought to Harvard a number of prominent students, among them Professor Fred N. Robinson 91, whose tireless research in old Celtic was awarded last year with a degree from the University of Dublin. This work has been steadily carried on, although in comparative secrecy. The archeological expedition that has been at work in Ireland for the last four years under the direction of Hugh Hencken '31, of the Peabody Muscum...
...Author. "Inviting Stuart Cloete to dinner," complains his novelist-friend, E. Arnot Robinson, "one is never quite sure whether one will get the ex-Coldstream Guards' officer . . . who has a disconcerting habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the unbuttoned half-Dutch ex-farmer from Africa will turn up, liable to be reminded, by the look of the fat lady on his left, of a post mortem he did on a cow." Matter-of-fact, 40-year-old, amiably bi-natured. Novelist Cloete has been both. Enlisting...