Word: took
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...Guide in 1907, it was the fraternal organ (circ. 500) of the Knights of Gideon. One day the editor failed to show up and Printing Foreman Young tried his hand at an editorial. He did so well that he was hired as associate editor. In 1910, Young took over the Guide and turned it into a general newspaper for Negroes. Now it has 80 employees, an International News Service wire and good Washington coverage from the National Negro Press Association...
After long reflection, Director Heil bought the boy (for a price he regards as his secret) and took him home for a good soap & water scrubbing. By this winter he had reconstructed the sculpture's travels. In the 18303, it was purchased for the royal family of Württemberg and moved from Florence to a palace near Stuttgart; there it remained till after World War I, when a Berlin dealer bought it, later brought it to the U.S., where it wound up in the Manhattan window...
...softspoken, self-effacing man (after his performance in Houston last week, he took a seat in the audience to listen to Efrem Kurtz conduct a Schumann symphony), Tossy is one of the few top U.S. concert violinists who have risen from orchestra ranks...
...tour and stayed there, giving concerts and perfecting, among other things, his high-elbow bowing technique. In 1941, he came to the U.S., got a job as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning. His performance left the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson "a little gasping. One is not used to this kind of work from violinists...
Girls Could Wait. Tony says he really took up shooting baskets to cure an inferiority complex. As a 12-year-old, he did fine at piano lessons but that didn't win him much prestige with his playmates; so he began practicing basketball shots at least an hour a day. Now the piano pays off too. At Yale, where many a student prides himself on his singing, he is a willing and able accompanist. He has already written a dozen songs (all unpublished as yet) which have such titles as I Want a Helicopter and Why Do You Make...