Word: westports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike his marriage, Ed Howe's children turned out well. James Fomeroy Howe, onetime Asiatic correspondent for the Associated Press, is now with their Washington Bureau. Daughter Mateel (Mrs. Dwight Farnham) lives with Mrs. Howe in Westport, Conn. Seven years ago, a year before Ed Howe received $10,000 from the Saturday Evening Post for his autobiography, Mateel Howe won the Dodd, Mead Pictorial Review $10,000 prize for her novel Rebellion, about a daughter's revolt from a tyrannical father...
...each time Soprano Hizi Koyke as Madame Butterfly struck a high note. In New York's Central Park rollerskaters kept time to Goldman band music. The "pop" concerts started in the White Plains West Chester County Centre in which maples and evergreen trees have been propped up. In Westport, Conn., the Manhattan Symphony postponed until next week the world premiere of Secretary William H. Woodin's The Gallant Tin Soldier, gave instead Daniel Gregory Mason's Chanticleer. Nearby in Weston, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloffs backyard was rolled and ready for the new New York Orchestra which he will...
...been an orchestra-builder. It was he who, shrewd, tireless and ambitious, founded the Cleveland Orchestra 14 years ago with the help of Adella Prentiss Hughes, and who secured for it last year its fine new home, Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Last week Nikolai Sokoloff, summering in Westport, Conn., was looking forward to next winter's 15th orchestra season; but he could not look forward to being Cleveland's maestro after May 31, 1933. The Cleveland Orchestra Company had failed to renew its contract with Founder Sokoloff, previously engaged for five-year periods...
Married. William McFee, 51, retired merchant mariner, author of sea tales (Casuals of the Sea, The Harbourmaster, Aliens); and Beatrice Allender, 34, Westport housekeeper; in Hartford, Conn...
...Westport, Conn...