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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who are fond of discussing the subject of 'Harvard and the Liberal Education' can gain some pointers at the Stadium almost any Saturday afternoon. An education which fails to teach its recipient to cheer when his team wins and not to complain when the wind blows easterly, though it may be a liberal education, it is not the education...
Author Sinclair had just launched EPIC* and Sheridan Downey-though he did not claim to be another Old Bob La Follette-had contracted a social itch, had to do something about Depression I. He and Upton Sinclair sat down, talked for seven days. No stenographer took down their scintillating exchanges, but Downey says now that he disagreed with Sinclair's absolute faith in production-for-use, clung then to the profit system, blamed excess savings† rather than excess profits for drying up the economic well. He says he just sympathized with Author Sinclair's objectives...
Unlike many famous musicians, Paderewski was no infant prodigy. Though he took piano, violin, cello and even trumpet lessons at an early age, his teachers at the Warsaw Conservatory considered him a promising composer rather than a concert artist. Not until he was 28 did he manage to make his debut in-Paris; even then he knew only enough music to fill one program. Debutant Paderewski had to go back and learn more pieces before he could appear again. But this he did with dogged determination, and soon the musical world began to realize that the composer of the famous...
...Though Patriot-Pianist Paderewski has lived to see his dreams of Polish independence realized and himself a legend in the history of music, it is naturally toward his heyday, the Victorian era, that his thoughts most fondly turn. "The passing of that great period, the nineties," he muses, "brought to a close a tremendous era, a flowering of all that was most beautiful and elegant in life. We shall not see its like again...
Working seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, at 46 he fidgets with surplus energy. His advertising business, though large, leaves him with time on his hands. This time he gives to his career as a broadcaster. In 1933, with Arde Bulova, he bought station WAAM (Newark), consolidated with station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi...