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Critics wrote reverently when they saluted the departing Maestro, recalled his many magical performances, his tireless quest for perfection, his abhorrence of all claptrap. Few other conductors could have withstood the adulation that has been lavished on Toscanini during his decade with the Philharmonic. Yet not one commentator has failed to point to Toscanini's humility in the presence of great music. When players interrupted a rehearsal to applaud their leader, he would cut them short with: "It is not I, Gentlemen. It is Beethoven...
Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs...
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S HENCHMAN- Meade Minnigerode-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). "The dreadful sleazy, treacherous inside story'' of the French Revolution, told by a tireless researcher. Apparently unconcerned with economic or social forces. Biographer Minnigerode describes in overabundant detail the career of Baron de Batz. instigator of many of the excesses of the Terror. The serious reader, if undeterred by the frenetic prose, may pick his way through this maze of personalities to an elaborate but convincing expose of the technique of counterrevolution...
...League of Yellow Journalists should be proud. Commendable from this point of view also is the implication that the former president of the Peace Society and the Phillips Brooks House representative on the committee (both of whom led the opposition to national affiliation) are members of a "tireless and determined radical group" merely because they accept the twice-expressed will of the majority. I also liked the title of the editorial--"Shot-Gun Wedding." It is loaded with pertinent implications...
...independence necessary to any Harvard political organization has been carried off lock, stock, and barrel, by the tireless and determined radical group which first lulls the moderate members into dull complacency and sooner or later alienates them by its irresponsible activities. The letter leaves unanswered the significant question: what strength will be added to the Harvard Student Union by its half-hearted but involving connection with the national organization...