Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last November conductors at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony have included an Englishman, a Russian, a Rumanian and a Mexican (TIME. Nov. 16). Last week.a Pole, Artur Rodzinski, stepped up to finish out the last eight weeks of a season which Philharmonic devotees consider has almost compensated by its variety for the absence of Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Next season, with John Barbirolli on the podium throughout, promises to be sound and satisfying but not eventful...
...President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago told the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association recently (TIME, Feb. 8). He had not been back in Chicago three weeks when last week it was announced that Chicago's Law School was henceforth going to practice what the University's president had preached, in an "attempt to fulfill more thoroughly the obligation that law schools owe to the legal profession and to the country. . . . The lawyer and the judge must be much more than well-trained legal technicians...
Chemical officers will admit-or even argue-that it is conceivable that some foreign power or combination of powers might drive the U. S. Navy to cover, bring up their aircraft carriers to 50 or 100 miles from the coast, attack New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis by air. Lieut.-Col. Prentiss holds that, if such a fantastic possibility materialized, incendiary bombs and high explosives would be more harmful than gas. To be effective, gas requires masses of human beings at ground level and without adequate shelter. War gas is heavy. Even if the enemy had the tremendous number...
Some experts believe that the enemy would be content to smear parts of New York with mustard and Lewisite. Mustard gas is not hard to neutralize (chloride of lime) but it is hard to find and hangs on for a long time. Without protective clothing it would be dangerous for civilians to venture into the streets, and the enemy would presumably be content with the resultant paralysis of the city...
...thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...