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...were lucky. Last week Mr. & Mrs. Sybrand van der Dussen arrived in New York with their eleven children. Sturdy Dutch burghers from Rotterdam, they had a somewhat unnerving time at LaGuardia Airport. They were surrounded by newsmen, and two-year-old Jacobus almost got tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand...
...first clang of the fire alarm, the Duke of Windsor flung out of his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers and up two flights to Baron Egmont van Zuylen van Nuyvelt's apartment. The Baron & friends, in a hot game of gin rummy, had overlooked a blaze in the bedroom. The visiting fireman (in dinner jacket, black tie) fell to "with a will for five minutes," it was reported, helped hotel employees drag a hose to the conflagration. Too late: the Baroness' $2,000 mink was just a pile of singed hair...
...also the soloist in the premiere of the Variations for Piano and Orchestra by Nicholas Van Slyck 1G, the work which dominated the second half of the program. The Crimson's critic states frankly that he is not enough of a musician to analyze the competition after one hearing; but it should be observed that it was at all times interesting, not to any noticeable extent derivative, and in the best modern tradition of piano-orchestra color. Van Slyck rose to the enthusiastic applause of the audience at the end of his prize-winning work's performance...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre in a concert introducing "Variations for Piano and Orchestra," by Nicholas Van Slyck '45, winner of the sodality contest for original student compositions...
...premier performance of "Variations for Piano and Orchestra," by Nicholas Van Slyck '45 1G, winner of the Pierian Sodality's contest for an original student work, will be featured in a concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Sanders Theatre Wednesday...