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Henry Cowell: Piano Music (Folkways). The dean of the enfants terribles of U.S. music plays and talks about the pieces that made such a ruckus in the 1920s. His 20 piano pieces (including Tides of Manaunaun and Trumpet of Angus Og) are full of rumbling dissonant tone clusters, reinforced by piano strings rubbed, strummed and plucked. The pieces sound prophetic now, and not nearly so wild...
...Poll and the confessions of Christine, top Tories were braced for bad news from last week's by-election to fill John Profumo's vacant seat at Stratford-upon-Avon, a true-blue Tory constituency. The news was bad all right, though hardly disastrous. Right-wing Conservative Angus Maude won with 15,846 votes, but the party's margin dropped from its 1959 peak of 14,129 to a mere...
...Stephen Ward-liar, drug user, pornographer, libertine and convicted pimp-was cremated in the London suburb of Mortlake. Though his solicitor had asked that no flowers be sent, there was a wreath of two hundred roses from, among others, Playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, Critic Kenneth Tynan, Novelists Angus Wilson and Alan Sillitoe, Jazzman Acker Bilk (who later withdrew his name). With the flowers came a note: "To Stephen Ward, victim of British hypocrisy." Explained Tynan: "British society created him, used him, and ruthlessly destroyed him. The Establishment has closed its ranks around its body...
...seat were: left-wing Labor Candidate Andrew Faulds, 40, a bearded Shakespearean actor who actually discovered a slum in the Warwickshire countryside; Publisher Derick Mirfin, 33, a bright, toothy Liberal, who declared that "it's time to give the Tories a kick in the pants"; and Tory Angus Maude, 50, an able journalist and former M.P. who rebelled against the government's handling of Suez but was running on the Tories' record of service to the country...
...MIDDLE EAST. The Cambridge-taught Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Rev. Angus Campbell Maclnnes, governs a 3,500,000-sq.-mi. archdiocese of 150,000 Christian Jordanese, Lebanese, Turks, Iranians, Egyptians, Sudanese and Greeks, and operates one of two seminaries which expressly seek to serve all branches of the communion-St. George's College in Arab Jerusalem. Maclnnes' church is in communion with one branch of Christianity involved in an unedifying project: the zenophobic Arab Evangelical Episcopal Church, which plans to drop 50 psalms from its revised Prayer Book because they mention Israel...