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...brought his orchestra close to the head of the symphonic class. The San Francisco Symphony, approximately 15% of whose annual budget is paid out of taxes, is one of the half-dozen finest orchestras in the U.S. It is kept so by San Francisco's first musical citizen, walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux. To those who watch Pierre Monteux still gay and zealous in the midst of music, it seems incredible that next week he will be 69 years...
Humor. Just as Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
...accomplishments of North Carolina's Senator Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Rice Reynolds are varied. He has been married five times, sired four children, kissed the late Jean Harlow on the Capitol steps, and is the only U.S. Senator to shoot an enraged bull walrus at 20 feet. For ten years he has been a labor-baiting, immigrant-hating demagogue, an implacable isolationist with Fascist trimmings and Fascist friends. U.S. Fascist opinion of him (as expressed by Fascist Lawrence Dennis): "No brains." This week Senator Reynolds announced he would not run for re-election next year. No tears fell...
Still more exclusive back-patting travel group is the Kee Club, named after the mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...
...walrus-mustached school principal named S. A. Farnsworth was St. Paul's city treasurer before World War I. In a 12-by-18-ft. corner room of his office he started to sell "participating certificates" in $1,000 St. Paul municipal bonds in small denominations to St. Paul's thrifty. The interest St. Paul had to pay on its bonds was less that way; St. Paul citizens liked it too. They dubbed Farnsworth's brain child "the city bank...