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Shades of Frank Sinatra. The opening paragraph of your article sounded like the 1940s accounts of Sinatra's appearance at the Paramount Theater in New York City, when he was mobbed by bobby-soxers. I don't know about Martin's music (I'm a Mozartian), but it's nice for a change to see a pop singer who doesn't look as if he came out of a garbage dump. Good luck to him! RAY DAMSKEY Calistoga, Calif...
Lewis is the only one of seven deans of the College since the 1940s to also be a professional academic--the other was dean-professor May, who is now Warren Professor of American History...
During this time enrollment at Harvard, after sinking to a wartime low, skyrocketed to almost double the prewar norm in the late 1940s. Veterans flooded the campus, making up over half of the Class...
...increase in enrollment due to the GI Billin the late 1940s marked a permanent shift inHarvard admissions. The pre-war norm of 3,500 wasforever discarded and enrollment consistentlyremained above...
Enter England's Alfred Deller, who, starting in the mid-1940s, singlehandedly revived countertenor singing. Deller inspired Benjamin Britten to write the first countertenor role in a 20th century opera, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other singers began emulating Deller, and as the revival of interest in baroque opera picked up steam in the '70s, countertenors became popular once more...