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...Reiter landed in Manhattan nine years ago, with $40 and a worn brief case containing all that remained of the first 33 years of his life. Watching the parade of jobless conductors on Manhattan's musical 57th Street, he decided that a scrapbook of glowing press notices in foreign languages would get him nowhere. He threw his scrapbook away...
Last week, kindly, bustling Max Reiter was back in Manhattan as guest conductor of the ABC Symphony Orchestra. In eight years in San Antonio, he had turned 40 homespun musicians into a smoothly functioning symphony of 78 pieces. Among the treasures in his new scrapbook: U.S. citizenship, a letter from the maestro he had once trembled before in Milan. Wrote Toscanini, after hearing a Reiter broadcast: "A fine performance, which is a thing that does not happen very often even with famous orchestras and widely publicized conductors...
George VI and Elizabeth, home from Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had a new tribute for their scrapbook, painstakingly pieced together by 68-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield (whose services to the Crown earn him roughly $515 a year). He cheerfully reported the world's recognition...
...some of the headlines have not been the kind that look well in a scrapbook. There were the headlines in Philadelphia when Leo slugged a reporter. And the headlines about what happened in Leo's apartment while Leo was away: when Screen Tough George Raft won $18,000 from a gullible manufacturer in a wild-&-woolly crap game...
...best. Early Monday night he called back on a three-way hookup so that Spokesman-Review Editor Glendinning, who was on hand, could talk, too. Yes, they had found the printed verse and it was King's, all right. They had persuaded Jack Knight to get his scrapbook and bring it to the Chronicle office. The clipping was carefully removed and the reverse side showed that it was from the Spokesman-Review on a March 6th. It turned out to be March 6, 1933, three months before Stoddard King died...