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Bearded Beats. No avant-gardist could resist a success like that, and when an English translation became available this year, the New York festival's sponsors leaped at it. Allan Kaprow, the inventor of "happenings," was signed up as director, and Allen Ginsberg, grand old man of the beats, was persuaded to take on the exacting role of the poet. The opening at Judson Hall could not have been more auspicious; it was picketed by a rival group calling itself "Fluxus," bearing signs: "Fight the rich man's snob art." Fluxus Leader Henry Flynt favors "compositions" in which...
Generous Attention. It was not as if the country's press needed any reminder that television is a fiercely competitive news medium. "I like the nationwide audience and all that," said Allan Rusten, press chief for the G.O.P.'s Platform Committee, "but I feel like I'm being strangled in TV cables." TV sound trucks ringed San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel like enemy tanks, and such was the TV-induced congestion that one city cop had to borrow a TV crane to regulate traffic (see cut). But the moral was apparently lost on the country...
...Seeded fourth, be hind California, Harvard and Washing ton, Vesper did not figure to offer much competition to the younger col lege crews. Their average age was 26, and only the presence of two under graduate ringers from La Salle College kept it that low. The part-time coach, Allan Rosenberg, is a Philadelphia law yer. The coxswain, Robert Zimonyi, is a 46-year-old Hungarian refugee. The captain, Bill Knecht, is 34, a plumbing contractor, the father of six. But in the semifinals, Vesper shocked the experts by beating Harvard, the undefeated Eastern champion, by two lengths...
BEWITCHED (Kapp). There is no escaping Jack Jones these days on TV and bestselling record charts. Son of Musical Comedy Star Allan Jones, Jack is longer on looks than on personality, but his singing has a splash of Sinatra in it and an appeal to two generations, if not three. Here is something old, Dad's song, Rosalie, and something new, It Only Takes a Moment...
Sounding like a bunch of cheetahs, They say funny folk songs all stink, Waving placards, "Allan Sherman...