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...their report on polio made last fortnight in Science, they told how they and Yale experts John Rodman Paul and James Bowling Trask spent the summer catching flies, a summer job that may eventually help to bring poliomyelitis under control...
...showplace of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. is Yaddo, 500-acre estate of the late Banker Spencer Trask and his poet wife, Katrina. For twelve years Yaddo's three-story stone, Victorian-Gothic mansion has been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young ones...
...Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang the vocal himself. And so on. None of the music would have set Saratoga Springs on fire, but it probably would have pleased Katrina Trask, who used to say: "At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame...
...about 11 o'clock tomorrow night, two enchantresses from the Follies Bergere will join the festivities at the Dunster House Winter Formal Dance with Buddy Trask and his orchestra. They will both have dates, but their escorts have agreed to leave as soon as the girls have met a few a of the Finsters...
...bunch of highschool musicians on their first job. Moral: Don't expect soft swing or good sweet from a band unless you pay for it. . . . Dunster House decided at the last minute not to get Red Norvo for their dance on March 1, and settled on localite Buddy Trask. While Trask isn't too bad, it's a shame that they didn't take Norvo since it would have given Harvard a preview on a new style of playing swing that everybody in the business is predicting to be sensational...