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With his resignation Gatti made public the correspondence between himself and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath. Mr. Cravath's letters were suitably regretful: "I find it difficult to adjust myself to the thought of the Metropolitan without you in charge. . . ." Sphinxian Gatti was characteristically formal: "This decision is taken in consideration of my rather mature age [65], and of the continued and exhausting hardships of a long directorial career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gatti's Good-by | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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