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...Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing to devote a lifetime to church and choral music. In 1926, encouraged by Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, he started the Westminster Choir School...
...Choir School is largely self-supporting and Dr. Williamson tirelessly supervises its vigorous four-year courses in harmony, theory, ear-training, conducting, hymnology, Bible. The world knows of the School through Mrs. Talbott, whose generosity and energy are a match for Dr. Williamson's devotion. The hand-picked Choir has been her pet philanthropy. She has financed its visits to over 200 U. S. cities. She took the 1929 singers to Europe where they were teased for drinking their toasts in water. But their music had high praise in every capital...
...Talbott, a portly, indomitable woman of 70, once had notions of becoming a singer herself. Instead she married Harry Elstner Talbott. an engineer who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. They had seven comely daughters, all married, and two sons. Harold, a famed polo player, is a director of Chrysler Corp.. Thompson-Starrett and many another organization. Nelson ("Bud") Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There...
...Talbott used to have a busy hand in real estate in Florida, where she still keeps a home. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. But now the Westminster Choir and its forthcoming tour take most of her time. This week she was bustling around Manhattan, working on her plan to get the Russian tour financed by U. S. corporations doing business with the Soviets. But she planned to take time to go to Princeton. The festival is named in her honor. Besides as in years past, she will solo...
...with no commercial success. Three years ago Julius D. Madaras, Detroit Hungarian, persuaded six power concerns that he could succeed by adapting a Magnus rotor such as carried Anton Flettner's sailing vessel Baden-Baden from Hamburg to Manhattan (TIME, May 24, 1926) and lifted Harold Elstner Talbott Jr.'s hydroplane from Long Island waters in 1930. The utilitarians gave Designer Madaras $104,000 to build a demonstration rotor at West Burlington, N. J. Last week he showed them that it works...