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...they heard of another amateur musician who had just written a bit of music: Actor Lionel Barrymore. They asked for permission to premiere his newest work in Chicago. It turned out to be a piano concerto-which was a little disconcerting. Explained First Violinist Lester Baker, a railway freight statistician: "As a rule accompaniments are so uninteresting to play, but the melodies of the Barrymore concerto lay so well on the various instruments that our members felt impelled to rise to the occasion." Barrymore made just one stipulation: that he be allowed to choose the soloist. He chose...
...Statistician. In London, Dr. Claude Baker Gabb spent 30 years collecting statistics on nonagenarian deaths, then died...
Says the Public Health Service's top statistician, Dr. Jacob Yerushalmy: babies spaced at "moderate intervals" have the best chance of being born alive. Dr. Yerushalmy did not specify what a "moderate interval" is. The best time to have a second child, said the doctor, is at 20 to 24, and the best time to have the sixth through eighth is in the early...
...Another statistician, Metropolitan Life Insurance's Paris R. Eastman (no kin to Nicholas J.), was sure which is the best month. Said he in last week's American Journal of Public Health: ". . . August babies have the best chance of surviving to their first birthday...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...