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Last year Persinger commuted between Manhattan and Cleveland's Institute of Music. His Juilliard appointment will preclude such a schedule, keep him in Manhattan where his family now lives? his wife who was Angela Gianelli, an able pianist; Louis Jr., 12, also studying the piano; Rolf, 10, who shows marked talent for the violin. Since the spectacular success of his prodigies he has been besieged by parents, some with precocious, some with backward children. He is ignorantly supposed to be able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils...
...rink, sprained her ankle. Following this experience a "great fire came down," she got the Oldtime Religion and Evangelist Semple. Together they went to China, where he died, leaving her with a baby, Roberta. She returned to California and married one Harold McPherson, by whom she had another child, Rolf. Then she divorced McPherson and took up soul-saving. Once, lacking a crowd, she stood on a chair in the middle of a little town, head upraised, in silent prayer. As soon as a crowd gathered she jumped down, shouted "Quick!", led the bewildered mob to her tent...
...affirmative team in the order of speaking was as follows: B. S. Duniway, Rolf Lium, and Herman Johnson; while the negative was composed of R. F. Courtney '29, J. K. Fairbank '29, and V. K. Kwong '29. The first affirmative speaker opened the debate with a ten minute speech and closed it with a five minute rebuttal, while the other five speakers had 15 minutes each in which to bring forth their arguments...
...visiting team, composed of B. C. Duniway, Rolf Lium, and Herman Johnson, is on a tour of the East engaging in an extensive program of debates with Eastern institutions. All of its members are experienced debaters, and one of them, Rolf Lium, gained nation-wide prominence last summer when he acted as preacher for the Congregational church attended by President and Mrs. Coolidge during their sojourn in the Black Hills of South Dakota...
...Rolf Sinerton, a Norwegian living in Montreal, traveled 112 feet off a snowbank, won the ski-jumping championship of Canada...