Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atonalist Schönberg, who is now in Hollywood (but not of it), has begun to put slightly more melodious whistles in his work. Not so, his disciple Krenek. Last spring Composer Krenek, in an article in Musical America, deplored the reaction of his contemporaries, exhorted them to turn back to the stern old days of esthetic revolution, of completely tuneless music...
First to be found was courageous, charming, young William Henry Welch, who became professor of pathology. Dr. Welch brought in William Osler, a Canadian then practicing in Philadelphia, and William Stewart Halsted as professors of medicine and surgery. Osler, in turn, asked a brilliant young surgeon, Howard Atwood Kelly, to be professor of gynecology...
...been in the automobile business ever since he got out of Georgia Tech in 1911, returned to Eatonton to run a garage. Presently he became a mechanic in Detroit's early motor companies, got fired with monotonous regularity until he branched into sales. He did a turn as draftsman with Haynes Automobile Co., lost some money but learned how to be an executive in the short-lived Sun Motor Car Co., finally hitched his trailer to a star in 1918 by joining Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. then headed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.* When Hyatt was taken over...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-price car, looks like Chrysler, De Soto and Dodge, has a 114 in. wheelbase, longest any Plymouth ever had. Its five Roadkings ($740), eight DeLuxes ($805), all turn up 82 h.p. Catchiest number showing is the convertible coupé, with a top that slides magically into place or back at the twist of a dashboard knob. Secret: intake vacuum power...
...Rockleigh, N. J. sportsman, submitted a bid of $850,000 to the City of New York for the sale of its Tombs Prison. If his bid is accepted, he plans to use it during the World's Fair as a museum of famed crimes and criminals; afterwards, to turn it into an indoor polo field...