Class leaders
25 years ago: 1988
Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov has cancelled his 23- city summer tour, including a sold- out July 18 performance in Memphis, because of an old knee injury aggravated early this week. Refunds will be available starting at 10 a. m. Friday to those who bought the 4,300 tickets for the performance at The Auditorium North Hall. Baryshnikov was to have appeared with 10 dancers from the American Ballet Theatre. Marti Kuhn, marketing director of The Auditorium, tried to arrange for ballet veteran Rudolf Nureyev to step in for Baryshnikov, but the substitution could not be worked out without a local sponsor.
50 years ago: 1963
James D. Landauer, current “real estate man of the year” in New York, will be here tomorrow to tell Memphians the value of restoring older buildings and to encourage them to bring their structures up to date. Mr. Landauer, president of the world’s largest office building — the Pan Am Building — will be the principal speaker at a Claridge luncheon tomorrow kicking off the city’s first Building Restoration and Modernization Workshop. He is coming here on the personal invitation of Allen Morgan, president of the First National Bank and chairman of the Downtown Association of Memphis’ building restoration and modernization committee.
75 years ago: 1938
To a Memphis youth goes the honor of catching the largest king tarpon landed on the Gulf Coast this season. The tarpon, seven feet, nine inches long, was caught this week by Jack Scharff, son of Abe Scharff, near Aransas Pass, Texas. It took him more than an hour to land the big fish.
100 years ago: 1913
Cincinnati — About 11,000 garment workers here will go on strike tomorrow if their demands are not met. The women workers are seeking a 48-hour week and the men either a 48-hour week or a 50-hour week with a 10 per cent increase in wages.
125 years ago: 1888
Fire Chief Ryan has found that the leather hose recently purchased has not stood up under the tests he has subjected it to and the Legislative Council has demanded a refund of the manufacturers.