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Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, Emeritus, will be honored at a 75th birthday dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston tomorrow night. The Alumni Association of the Graduate School of Design is sponsoring the event. Earlier tomorrow, a panel discussion on "Art in Architecture" with take place at Rindge Technical School. Speakers will include Jose L. Sert, Dean of the School of Design; Hideo Sasaki, associate professor of Landscape Architecture; Gyorgy Kepes of M.I.T., and three other architects. An exhibit of Gropius' work, "Walter Gropius and Architecture Education at Harvard," is now on display at Robinson Hall (see picture...
...state's educational system, the authors of the constitution of Texas seemed to have some Texas-size hopes; they wanted the legislature to set up nothing less than "a university of the first'class." Last week, as it began a yearlong celebration of its' 75th anniversary, the University of Texas was closer to realizing that hope than it has ever been. But the fact remains that of all U.S. campuses, not many have had a more inglorious past...
...town weekly newspaper in the U.S.: Grit, published in Williamsport, Pa. (pop. 46,000), by a bald, conservative optimist named George Lamade. By being aggressively agreeable, plain-looking, plain-spoken Grit has built up a national circulation of nearly 900,000 in 48 states, this month will celebrate its 75th birthday as the paper "that rings the joy bells of life...
...Conversation with Igor Stravinsky, filmed on the eve of the composer's 75th birthday, was an uninterrupted half hour of disarming intimacy and directness. Other conductors, he chuckled, get "furious" when he conducts his own works ("They consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something...
...three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard Oil's (NJ.) $600,000 75th Anniversary Show, to be staged in color over NBC (9 to 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) by Theaterman Cyril Ritchard, stars Tyrone Power, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, Donald O'Connor, Jane Powell, Marge and Gower Champion, Brandon de Wilde, Duke Ellington, Eddie Mayehoff, Kay Thompson, Columnist Art Buchwald and British Cartoonist...