Word: specht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most thoroughgoing biography of Puccini, to date, is that of Austrian Critic Richard Specht, which appeared in an English translation five years ago (Alfred Knopf). To it was added last week a genial book of personal reminiscence by Vincent Seligman,t son of Puccini's close friend, Sybil Seligman, a British-born musical amateur. Without attempting to rival Biographer Specht's scholarship. Biographer Seligman gives a more intimate picture of a fastidious, cultured musician who was loved by a fearsomely jealous wife, who himself loved motorboats, feminine society, high-powered automobiles...
...relay team of Wallace, Wyman, Bob Heskett and Colony, will oppose a team chosen from Crouse, D. Ley, G. Ley, O'Brien, Ostrom and Specht...
...Crimson will use Abbot Sherwood and Gregory Jameson in the 440-yard free style against Specht and Essex...
Richard Fisher and Carl Goulland are pitted against Specht and Young in the 150-yard back stroke...
...yard back stroke swim--Won by Edward E. Stowell '34; second, Richard T. Fisher, Jr. '36; third, R. Specht (D). Time--1 minute, 42 2-5 seconds, (new Spaulding Pool record...