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...Post faces an uphill struggle against a paper that caters to Chattanooga's disapproval of Lyndon Johnson and his "Great Society. But Mrs. Golden is confident. The 45-year-old granddaughter of famed Times Publisher Adolph Ochs, she has been a power on her paper for 20 years, and when she divorced her husband, Ben Golden, two years ago, she took over his position as publisher. Breezily written, with plenty of pictures and eye-resting white space, her new paper will concentrate entirely on local news. It will be as little like the Times as possible...
...Adolph Wilburn, a research associate at the Center, commented yesterday that "in many ways the poor in Latin America are like the kids in center-city American slums." Though the Center's project, he said, will be mainly concerned with administrative reform, there may be some attempt to apply the results of recent psychological studies on the education of culturally deprived children...
John Cunningham's Duke is clear but tepid. Adolph Caesar brings a rich voice to the Priest, but his make-believe senility is false. Stephen Pearlman's Antonio exhibits acrocious diction and no comprehension. And how could the director allow him to pass right by Viola-Cesario when exiting in pursuit of the look-alike Sebastian without Antonio's batting an eye? The suspension of disbelief can stretch only...
...Died. Adolph Germer, 85, German-born labor pioneer, who started in the Illinois coal fields at age eleven, had worked his way up to the United Mine Workers vice presidency when John L. Lewis tapped him in 1935 to organize the Detroit auto workers as Lewis lormed the C.I.O., incidentally giving abor one of its leading lights when he lired Walter Reuther as an organizer; of cancer; in Rockford...
Much that looked like social protest turned into a protest against the canons of art. Jackson Pollock, once a disciple of Thomas Hart Benton, turned out drab American factory scenes and landscapes in his search for a new style, later went on to produce his famous drip paintings. Adolph Gottlieb, another abstract expressionist who won first prize at the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienal, had to be content in 1939 to win a commission for a mural in the Yerington, Nev., post office...