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...special counsel to the President. A third Negro, Clifford Alexander, succeeds Taylor in the White House post; only 32 years old, Alexander graduated from Harvard cum laude, took a law degree at Yale, has been deputy special assistant to the President since last year. L.B.J. also appointed David G. Bress, 57, a practicing lawyer in Washington for 30 years, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia...
...surest way to make an impression on fellow concertgoers is to bring a score and silently read along during the performance. In a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall last week, Canadian Violinist Hyman Bress threatened to render this excellent ploy obsolete. Behind him, as he played Schoenberg's Fantasy Opus 47, the twelve pages of the score were projected on a screen...
...Bress's hopeful theory is that most people can read music or that they can at least "get the pattern." The combination of sound and score is particularly essential in the performance of modern music, Bress believes, to convince bewildered audiences that "they are not being hoodwinked and that the artist is not getting away with murder." Last week's performance suggested some hazards that Bress, 29, may not have anticipated. Spectators on the left of the hall grumped that the violinist's tall silhouette concealed many of the notes. Other spectators seemed so fascinated...
...defeated L. Youman, 6-1, 6-1; S. Frieder defeated J. Baldwin, 0-6, 9-7, 6-0; E. Sehehi defeated E. Hale, 10-8, 6-4; E. Helfeld defeated R. Webb, 6-2, 6-2; D. Shapere defeated P. Tanphiphat, 6-0, 6-0; R. Holroyd defeated B. Bress, 6-0, 6-0; K. Smith defeated T. Atkinson, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3; R. Balkin and J. Pleasant forfeited...
...results of the first round; J. Baldwin defeated J. Joslin, 6-4, 6-2; E. Hale defeated J.H. Doherty, 8-6, 6-2; L. Youman defeated G. Phillips, 6-2, 6-0; D. Bress defeated P. Pitney, 8-6, 6-4; R. Holroyd defeated T. Klaren, 6-0, 6-1; J. Wurtzberger defeated D. Kristol, 6-3, 6-1; and W. Tucker defeated L. Baum...