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...trade counters last week Victor was pushing both a new Beecham version of Handel's Messiah and the Ames Brothers, a recording of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. and Elvis Presley's newest but possibly fading wails (see SHOW BUSINESS). Marek himself is a dedicated opera lover (among his books: The World Treasury of Grand Opera, an excellent biography of Puccini), but he is also the man responsible for an album called Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music. His conviction: If he can get customers started on "music, any kind of music," they will soon find...
Learn Abroad. To organize the trip, Jaeger visited 13 countries beforehand, arranged to borrow local classrooms, found English-speaking native families to take in his students (hotels are shunned). He got the school chartered by the New York Board of Regents, hired four top teachers. Among them: Ohio State Botanist Clarence E. Taft and Journalist-Author Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow. Jaeger put in $30,000 of his own money to make up the difference between tuition and cost...
...state legislators, who regard Atlanta as a big-city Gomorrah, are in no mood for compromise. Even if rabidly segregationist Governor S. Ernest Vandiver wished to ease matters, he left himself no room last week. Said he: "The people of Georgia overwhelmingly elected me Governor on a platform that, among other things, made my views on school segregation well known, clear and unmistakable. Those views have not changed...
...students, 80 graduate ministerial students and 112 pastors have been trained by the institute so far, and the new building, scheduled for completion next fall, is expected to increase enrollment. Part of the structure will be a large out-patient clinic to which ambulatory patients can come for counseling. Among the institute's case histories that underline the need for such counseling is the story of a middle-aged man, now making a good recovery from major surgery, who was sinking fast until a chaplain-intern persuaded him that he still had much to live for. "Every person...
Since World War II, British sculptors have gained more fame as a group than all of their forerunners put together. Their grand old man is Henry Moore (TIME, Sept. 21), but other stars of the movement are still in their 20s and 30s. Among the youngest and newest to fame are two modelers of heavily textured, postsurrealist, gloomily playful figures: Eduardo Paolozzi, 35, and Elisabeth Frink...