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Brad Gowans and His New York Nine (Victor LP). Dixieland of 1946, a mellow but not a vintage year. Gowans is probably the leading exponent of hot valve trombone; his playing is matched by Billy Butterfield's fine trumpet. Notable as the last recording by the late great drummer Dave Tough...
...shoot me." He tried to get a job in publishing, but wound up teaching at the Riverdale Country School for boys, just outside Manhattan. There, during the long hours of dormitory duty, he taught himself Greek. He also talked philosophy, art and the classics with Fellow Teachers Victor Butterfield, now president of Wesley an University, and Sterling Callisen, now dean of education and museum extension of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The result of all the talking: all three decided to go back to the academic life as students...
...Jardine, Matheson & Co. and other big British traders in Red China, the road to disillusion has been a way of travail. After the Reds won the China mainland, such firms as Jardine's, Butterfield & Swire, and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the rosily misguided notion that they could do profitable business with Mao Tse-tung. It was in part because of their illusions and their influence that Britain's Labor government of the time recognized the Mao regime...
...Yale Ph.D. and authority on Alexander Pope, Knight joined the Yale faculty in 1946, rose to become assistant professor of English. With his new appointment, he can expect to go far in the academic world. Among Lawrence faculty men who have: Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, Victor Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, John S. Millis, president of Western Reserve -and Pusey, now president of Harvard...
Wesleyan President Victor Butterfield also lauded the project, asserting, "I think it's an excellent idea...