Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowing who came first, the court threw out the case. Rudy Vallee waxed more famous, and Will Osborn, who sounded like him, bore in silence the onus of an imitator. But Will has left St. Andrews College (in his native Toronto) to become an orchestra leader of note. He worked incessantly on special trombone effects, relied less on his voice. A year ago dancers began to notice that Will Osborne had a sweet swing to his playing. Today Rudy Vallee is known chiefly for his radio variety hour will Osborne is known for his band...
Fortnight ago in Nova Scotia the old Moose River Gold Mine collapsed, entombing its new owners, Toronto's Dr. David Edwin Robertson, Lawyer Herman Russell Magill and their employe, Alfred Scadding (TIME, April 27). The Moose River catastrophe set all Canada tingling with excitement as rescue crews began to dig, drill and dynamite...
...poor old gold mine in Nova Scotia, abandoned 25 years ago and reopened last winter, collapsed on its owners last week, thus entombing one of Canada's most distinguished surgeons and a rising young Toronto lawyer. Trapped with them was one of their employes. Modest, moon-faced Dr. David Edwin Robertson, 52, surgeon-in-chief of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and his lawyer friend, gangling, bespectacled Herman Russell Magill, 30, last February took a flyer by leasing the Moose River Gold Mine. Last week Dr. Robertson & partner were ready to take the mine's first...
...Connell, one of his assistants who grew up in Springfield. In a final chorale and fugue Stokowski played the organ along with the Orchestra. But he sternly refused to take a bow, kept in the background while Conductor O'Connell reaped a home-town reception. For the Toronto concert next night special trains brought listeners from all over Ontario. The city was beflagged. Enthusiasm outran anything the Philadelphia players had ever dreamed...
...Cities and towns in the Philadelphia's itinerary: Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Toronto, Chicago, Urbana, Ill., Evansville, Ind., Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Little Rock, Dallas, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Holdrege, Neb., Omaha, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Manhattan...