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...Memorial Auditorium, finest in the land.) In Manhattan's mellow Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic-Symphony also launched its 99th season of concerts. This last event produced the loudest crash. For Manhattan's Herald Tribune produced a notable new critic: witty, chubby-cheeked, ex-expatriate Virgil Thomson, composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, cinemusic for The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River), onetime writer on music for Vanity Fair and the Boston Transcript...
...death of Lawrence Oilman a year ago left not only the Herald Tribune but the U. S. musical scene without a musicritic to compare with the late great James Gibbons Huneker, Philip Hale, Henry E. Krehbiel, et al. In the scramble for Mr. Oilman's job, Composer Thomson won on past performance and by agreeing with the Herald Tribune management that musicriticism should come out from under its bushel...
Died. Sir Joseph John ("J. J.") Thomson, 83, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), Nobel Prizewinning (1906) physicist and author; in Cambridge, England. Small, easygoing Sir Joseph helped bridge the gap between the old & new physics by establishing the electron theory. Before his discoveries, atoms were considered indivisible; Thomson and colleagues figured out that each atom consists of a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons...
...windbag, the little Roman promptly named his challengers: Old-timers Tom my Armour, Harry Cooper, Billie Burke, Craig Wood, Jimmy Thomson, Al Watrous, Lawson Little and Newcomers Jim my Demaret, Ben Hogan, Ed Oliver...
...sent his poem to the New York Herald Tribune, which published it. Last week he got a telephone call. A woman's voice informed him that it was Julia de Saegher calling. She had read his poem; she was living in Stonington, Conn. Mr. Thomson asked her to come to his office...