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Wagner, the dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that...
When another of his men, buzzard-bald Thomas Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, broke with Boss Long six months ago, the Louisiana "Kingfish" was less delighted. Last week he began his battle for revenge, a titan struggle of political machines, a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can with the courts, the national guard, the police, machine guns, radio and bad names as weapons. Point of the fight: Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept...
...Romberg, he writes wholly for shows. His charming music would fit well into the best of Viennese operettas. When Alexander Woollcott wrote his biography of Irving Berlin (1924), he asked Jerome Kern to supply a colleague's estimate. Kern was reminded of Wagner because Berlin, like the operatic titan, "molds and blends and ornaments his words and music at one and the same time, each being the outgrowth of the other." Kern could have carried the likeness further. Wagner, too, was a shrewd businessman. And his inspiration never seemed...
...detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones is out of Washington, RFC is out of Washington; no decisions are made, no major business transacted. Just as Hugh Johnson is NRA, Jesse Jones is RFC. Farm Boy to Financier, Like most of the Southwest's first generation of indigenous tycoons, Jesse Jones's origins...
...Besides his feet, Mr. Jones's spine troubles him. A dislocated vertebra has for some time prevented him from exercising. He is anything but sensitive about such things for in all his dominant doings he employs the homely, intimate touch. And he would be the last to approve titanic descriptions of himself. He masks, or maybe unmasks, his will-to-power with an air of modest deliberation and open-minded reticence. He listens carefully to the reasoning and suggestions of his colleagues, especially Colleagues Couch and politically important onetime Senator Elaine. He humbly accepted and executed the gold-buying...