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Harlem's hotspots last week had 45 knowing visitors. The 45 were delegates to the American Musicological Society's first international congress, climaxing a strenuous six-day program in Manhattan. Such eminent musicologists as Yugoslavia's Dragan Plamenac, Denmark's Knud Jeppesen, Venezuela's Juan Lecuna, watched the Big Apple, the Lindy Hop, the Shag, drank what there was to drink. At the Savoy Ballroom, Bandmaster Erskine Hawkins swung Bach, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Minor in their honor. The bolder musicologists ventured gingerly out on the floor, soon got limber...
...short when Heifetz refused to do any acting off a concert platform. Result was that Goldwyn had no story ready when Heifetz reported in Hollywood between concert tours last summer. In desperation, when Heifetz refused to wait for his $70,000, Goldwyn had him work it out in four strenuous weeks of recording everything from semi-popular music to concertos...
...write a little letter for the boy if time can be found, to be read when he grows up. The inherited vice from my side of the family is indolence-above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against that. I had to force myself into being strenuous...
...fitted in with the general fact that many epileptics do not have any brain abnormalities which might be considered responsible for the seizures. To test their hunch, the doctors placed 14 epileptic children under the care of a coach, who helped them develop "athlete's heart" through a strenuous program of rowing, running, basketball, football. At the same time the patients were placed on the traditional low-water diet, to dehydrate their brains and allow a greater volume of blood within their skulls. Within two months, all but one of the patients were completely free from attacks...
...summer trip would give Irv a good chance to get in shape for the 1940 Olympics, as he expects to wade through all American competition without much difficulty. As a matter of record, however, it appears that strenuous opposition will be provided from little Belgium, because in Gramment at the "Feast of Der Krakclinge" the good burghers have been lapping up 500 live goldfish anually since...