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...Dallas F. Billington. 59, preach his down-home sermons from the pulpit of his 5,000-seat auditorium. "God is real -see how he has blessed us," he often says. "This li'l ol' Kentucky preacher boy made good, and all the credit goes to God." The conviction that "God is real has carried Dr. Billington from one triumph to another since he came to Akron. A square-built six-footer, he recalls an uncertain beginning back in Kentucky, where he smoked and drank in the pool halls of Paducah. He quit drinking in 1924, when he became...
Notified of the Soviet action Friday, Edward L. Pattulla, assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, also announced that James H. Billington, assistant professor of History, will lecture at Leningrad in March. Billington in an eighteenth century Russian historian, currently studying in Finland on a leave of absence...
...other Harvard professors besides Billington will lecture at the University of Leningrad this pring. Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics, noted for his work on the mass spectroscope, and Paul D. Bartlett, Erving Professor of Chemistry and researcher in organic reactions, will leave in April for the Soviet Union...
...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...
...Billington also cited "the malaise of Soviet youth." In Russia, he said, there seems to be an inability to handle the new generation. In fact, the Youth Congress has termed adolescents in Russia "bugs and beetles who must be blotted out by insect exterminant...