Word: violining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eliphalet Whorff Dennison's grandson, Henry Sturgis Dennison, is the present head of this family concern. A shrewd, eccentric Yankee, he is bald and sharp-featured, likes to tug at his eyebrows and play the violin, organ, piano; he also likes to fish and fly kites. When he built a $75,000 Tudor manor, he horrified the architect by refusing to have leaded windows. Said he: "I'm not going to have a view of 20 miles spoiled by tradition." Once, after he strained his shoulder chopping, a doctor arrived to find him standing in his living room...
Baritone Harrell learned fiddling first, found he had a voice while studying violin in Philadelphia in 1932. Since then he has toured Europe's concert halls twice, had a Town Hall recital, sung with the New York Philharmonic (Children's Concert) and the Boston Symphony, is now soloist at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. He wants to sing Wagner...
...shouted, "Who sent for him? What does he represent? Whom does this Jew represent?" A U. S. newspaper correspondent slapped the delegate's mouth. Einstein was so angry at this display of race prejudice that he went back to his hotel, made horrid sounds on his violin until his feelings were soothed...
...eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy Conn, 21 and still growing, has a powerful left hook, has defeated five one-time world's middleweight champions. Johnny Paychek, a Des Moines bellhop, is the hope of the Midwest. Onetime national Golden Gloves champion, sedate, violin-playing Johnny Paychek has won 16 fights (twelve by knockouts) since last April...
...Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending him the manuscript of a brand-new Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin...