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Died. John-Alden Carpenter, 75, Chicago socialite, businessman and famed U.S. composer, a pioneer in the use of American jazz rhythms in concert works; after a long illness; in Chicago. Carpenter began winning acclaim around World War I for his polite, elegant songs, impressionistic orchestra pieces (Adventures in a Perambulator). Later he experimented widely, became the rage of the '20s with his jazz themes (the ballets Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers), was also noted for his choral works, chamber music and symphonies. Carpenter once said of his music: "At any rate, it is peaceful music, and in these days perhaps that...
...center of the dispute was 33-year-old President Paul A. Wagner, who had swept into office only two years ago to the loud acclaim of trustees, faculty and students alike. What happened to Rollins, and to President Wagner, was a classic and tragic example of the dilemma to which well-intentioned and fair-minded men on both sides of an argument can come...
...Louis Globe-Democrat, Kappesser began reading a past-tense-and less than favorable-account of his "ambitious direction" of Mahler's Second Symphony. "To say that Mr. Kappesser triumphed over [the music's] handicaps," read Conductor Kappesser, "would scarcely be accurate. He did his best. The same acclaim is due his singers and his orchestra." The audience laughed at a line about "an appreciative audience." Scornfully Kappesser read off the reviewer's initials: "H.R.B...
Merely ignoring the poll will do no good. The Young Progressives will fill theirs out anyway, and with fewer returns they can acclaim to the world that a large percentage of "Harvard men" approve their peace proposals. Better to ignore the rhetorical question and suggest your own way of "working to make PEACE a reality...
...Public Acclaim...