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...University American Veterans Committee lashed out this week at what it called "uninformed intolerance" in the recent action of the Commander Hotel when it canceled a "send-off" dinner for 35 Armenian-Americans who were about to return to Soviet Armenia...
After the cancellation of the dinner on October 22, the morning before it was to take place, the Armenian Progressive League refused to accept a refund of a $200 deposit, handing the case to their lawyer. No court action has yet been initiated...
...Born of Armenian parents in Stalin's native Georgia, young Aram appeared at a Moscow music school when he was 19, with little more to offer than a conviction that he was a musician. In three years he learned to scrub passably on the cello, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Miaskovsky, who had been a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. When Aram graduated in 1933, his name was carved on a marble panel, an honor reserved for star pupils. Khachaturian still draws heavily on his native Armenian and Georgian folk themes and rhythms for his symphonies and concertos...
Yard Police Chief Alvin R. Randall waited in vain yesterday afternoon for a student demonstration to develop around the Hotel Commander in protest of the management's decision to bar a pro-Russian Armenian dinner...
...Collector. Gulbenkian was reputedly born in Istanbul, the son of an Armenian rug peddler, by one version; according to another, the descendant of a long line of Armenian kings. He became a British subject in 1902 and went to King's College, London, although the story still lingers that he entered England as a rug peddler, smuggling in his three-year-old son in a carpet. In any case, Gulbenkian early made himself a useful agent in the Near East for the late Sir Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch-Shell's head...