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...came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell was sure, while Ormandy kept courteously to the background for the 61-year-old fiddler who, according to his irrepressible wife last week, "would be good if he would only practice." Ormandy 's strongest test came with Schubert's Seventh Symphony which, though it left him dripping with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Season's Overture | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Spending 'like this is not waste. It would spell future waste if we did not spend for such things now. . . . On my entire trip, though I asked the question dozens of times, I heard no complaint against the character of a single works relief project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Journey of Husbandry | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Women athletes, likely to be much more under the spell of sport than men, hate losing even more. Since coming so close to outright defeat by, Helen Jacobs, Helen Wills Moody has not entered any major tournaments. Last month she announced that she would henceforth make designing women's underclothes for Lastex her major interest (TIME, Aug 10). If she wins at Forest Hills this week, Helen Jacobs may reasonably conclude that her rivalry with Helen Wills Moody is essentially over and that she has attained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Favorite at Forest Hills | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Commercial airplane sales, booming through the hot spell, were almost double for the past six months what they, were the year before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Summer Smiles | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase of the season: The promise to U. S. business of a "breathing spell." In December, after intimately traveling through the month-old Philippine Commonwealth with President Manuel Quezon, Roy Howard again produced a front-page sensation by asserting that the Islands wanted, not full independence, but permanent commonwealth status. Three months later the snappy little publisher was inside the Kremlin, drawing from steely Dictator Joseph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hawkins for Howard | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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