Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring, while Hitler was marching on Czecho-Slovakia, Czech Weinberger, who had scurried off to the U. S., put the finishing touches to his variations. In Manhattan last week, John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave them a first performance in Carnegie Hall. The Philharmonic's first-nighters found they had to chase Weinberger's spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went...
...great names that once reported football still wrote their bylines on the sports pages last week. In the New York Sun and some 125 other papers Grantland Rice went on murmuring genteel phrases that made football sound as leisurely as golf, as intellectual as chess. But Damon Runyan had become a general columnist and short-story writer; so had Paul Gallico. Westbrook Pegler discoursed solemnly about politics, as did Heywood Broun. William O'Connell McGeehan and Ring Lardner were dead...
Bill Cunningham is no scholarly sportswriter like John Kieran of the New York Times. He is fast (in two hours he can file 3,000 words on a championship fight without ruffling his sandy hair), and has a flair for embroidering them with sentiment and drama...
Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 46, serving an eight-year sentence for draft evasion and wartime desertion in an Army prison (Governor's Island in New York Bay); and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 32; their sixth child, a daughter; in Philadelphia, Pa. weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz. Name: Berta...
Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...