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...Top-rank jobs in U. S. conducting all go to foreigners. Few U. S.-born conductors have had a chance to boss around even a third-class orchestra. But in the past four or five years a few U. S. maestros have bobbed up to the surface of the musical swim and managed to keep afloat. Among them: Kansas City's Karl Krueger, Chicago's Izler Solomon (TIME, March...
...First top-rank college coach to be taken on by professional football, canny, 50-year-old Jock Sutherland is said to be getting: 1) $12,000 a year ($1,000 less than he received at Pitt); 2) promise of a herd of new players (the Dodgers finished third in the Eastern Division of the league last year). Among those he hopes to lure: Iowa's Ironman Nile Kinnick, No. 1 college footballer...
...merge.) Events soon showed that U. S. philanthropy is unpredictable. Last fortnight President Hutchins was obliged to announce one of the richest hauls in University of Chicago's history-a total of $8,000,000 in December. Major item: the $3,500,000 Lake Forest estate (including a top-rank, 18-hole golf course) of Adman Albert Davis Lasker...
Professor Euros had suspected that nine out of ten tests were unreliable. To check his suspicions, he got 133 top-rank experts to rate the tests, Rutgers to publish their ratings (The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook-Rutgers University Press; $3). To some tests, notably Louis Thurstone's famed intelligence test for college freshmen (American Council on Education Psychological Examination), the experts gave a clean bill of health, high ratings. Elsewhere they turned up many a prize absurdity. Samples...
Debussy: Preludes, Book 2 (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 12 sides). A top-rank pianist and No. 1 Debussy-boy, massive, snorting, French-born German Pianist Gieseking completes the finest set of Debussy piano performances yet recorded...