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Sixty-one years ago when the organist of St. George's Episcopal Church, Flushing, L. I. lost the use of a hand, his 13-year-old son stepped up to the console, took his father's place. Six years later Son Raymond Huntington Woodman became organist at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He is still there, a goateed, white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life...
...from being retired, Organist Woodman last week was the happy centre of attention in a great throng of his colleagues in Manhattan's Hotel Astor. In session was the 14th general convention of the American Guild of Organists which he helped found in 1896. To its 1,000 delegates he declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively...
...pound class: William G. Davis '37 defeated William A. Gosline, 3rd '38, by decision. Time, 2 min. John H. Gilbert '36 defeated Lorrin E. Woodman '38, by decision...
Pressed Steel Manufacturer John Woodman Higgins of Worcester, Mass, has one thing in common with Shakespeare's Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy...
...wrestled as either a 135 or 145-pounder, is back this year after being kept from last year's Yale meet with a strained shoulder, with which he had wrestled in the Springfield, Cornell, and Princeton meets. Bill Davis, a member of the 1933 Freshman team, and Lorrin Woodman, who could on occasion, come down from 155 pounds, are also strong contenders. Dave Tufts, promising in the sport, had won two matches as heavyweight before he was temporarily put out of the running by an infected knee, which also kept him from midyear exams...