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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty years ago the most eminent of all U. S. composers, Edward Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: MacDowell Colony | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Sirs: Your article, Nevada-"One Sound State" (TIME, March 8) is good with the exception of your statement concerning the climate of which you say: "-hot & dry in summer; so snow cold in winter that even the Governor gets ou and shovels." The climate is so varied in thi; big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Seaboard's cellar door into the Middle East opened only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Afghan Oil | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

One of the most engrossing charac- ters in the history of the college was Tutor Henry Flynt, who "tuted" for 56 years straight. It was the custom 200 years ago for the students to present their tutor with silverware, but Flynt amassed so much silver that his last graduating class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison Tells History of Harvard Yard to Freshmen | 11/24/1936 | See Source »

Both Charlie Kessler and Don Daugh- ters, who were on the injured list last week, are again fit and will probably see action early in the game. The alternate A backfield of Boston, Oakes, Stuart, and Struck are also expected to see first half contact.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ELEVEN KEYED UP FOR NAVY BATTLE | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

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