Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Scott, who likes best to be called "Scotty," now wears mittens winter & summer when he plays the piano, claims that as his fingers perspire they become increasingly agile. Last week in Manhattan he set out to prove his freak point, challenged anyone to play faster than he through his own Jam on the Piano, then through Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Runner-up on the Jam piece was one Marjorie Otis, weeded from a week's preliminary tryouts. While newsreels clicked, Miss Otis played some 500 notes while Scott, in his mittens, played...
Famed always as a fast pianist was Ignace Jan Paderewski, a challenger to Scott last week only in his Duo-Art recordings. In the fastest section of the Hungarian Rhapsody, Paderewski plays 156 notes in six seconds, or 26 notes per second. Scott managed to outspeed the great Pole by 1½ sec. Scott's all-time record is 44½ notes per second...
...Archibald Vivian Hill, with Otto Meyerhof, a German (1922); Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, with Christian Eijkman, a Dutchman (1929); Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, with Edgar Douglas Adrian, another Englishman...
...disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner, C. W. A. Scott...
...FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD was named after his ancestor, the Baltimore attorney who wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner." F. Scott was born in St. Paul, Minn., 40 years ago. At Princeton he spent his first year writing a Triangle show, therefore flunked algebra, trig, and associated studies. The show was a hit. By tutoring during the summer, he successfully got back to Princeton the next year, and played a chorus girl in his show...