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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holder of the 18.1 balk line* championship almost continuously since 1906 has been stumpy, grey-haired Willie Hoppe. Last week in a curtained enclosure in Manhattan's noisy Capitol Bowling and Billiard Academy, Champion Hoppe defended his title against the challenge of Jake Schaefer, sharp-nosed champion at 18.2 balk line.* For their 3,000-point match. Champion Schaefer unfortunately turned up tremendously off form. On the third day, Champion Hoppe clicked off a run of 169, two nights later two runs of 85 and 94. The best Champion Schaefer could run was 137. Champion Hoppe retained his championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cue Masters | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...exhibit was arranged by Professor Heinrich W. Schaefer-Simmern, now at Cooper Union, New York, who for many years conducted a children's art center in Berlin. The items are chosen from the work of his former pupils in Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work of Untrained Children Shown in Germanic Museum | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...Lancaster, Ohio, Robert Schaefer, 8, and Jack Hauser. 7, organized a "G-man" squad with toy guns and disguises supplied by their parents, set up "headquarters" in a shack. Last week Agent Schaefer strolled into headquarters, encountered a stranger who, when questioned, gave him a dollar and told him to keep his mouth shut. Stealing out to the street, Agent Schaefer signaled a policeman, exclaimed: "I've just captured a criminal." In the shack the policeman arrested Owen Bickel, 17, a convict who had just escaped from two Federal officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...midwestern orchestras, none has risen so rapidly or so recently as the Indianapolis Symphony. Until 1930 Indianapolis had no resident orchestra, had to depend on occasional visits from the Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit bands. That year an old violin teacher named Ferdinand Schaefer brought together 60 unemployed musicians to form the co-operative Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Before an average house of 400 they played five times, earned less than $5 apiece for each concert. At the end of the season the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the Junior League formed the Indianapolis State Symphony Society as sponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sevitzky to Indiana | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Within four years the Indianapolis Symphony was giving additional performances at Muncie, Bloomington and Lafayette. It began to hire soloists, guest conductors. This season it easily met a $25,000 budget. Last week the Indianapolis Symphony announced its most ambitious plans to date. Old Conductor Schaefer will retire. Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of Boston's People's Symphony, will succeed him with a three-year contract, his reward for a sensational guest performance this winter. The orchestra plans 20 home concerts, 15 more on a Statewide tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sevitzky to Indiana | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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