Word: chairmanships
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...part of each concentrator. Music cannot, after all, be studied well without enough piano skill to train the ear, to read scores and to develop a modicum of acquaintance with actual presentation of the art. The department required such ability at the piano under Professor Merritt's chairmanship, although no credit was granted for the fulfillment of this requirement. The appointment of a distinguished pianist, Miss Luise Vosgerchian, to direct the instruction has given it new emphasis...
...gesture to the Pennsy, Central directors seem ready to tap as president Allen Greenough, 56, currently president of the Pennsylvania. Central President Alfred Perlman, 59, a tough operating man but less effective in administration and not too highly regarded at the Pennsy, seems slated for a vice chairmanship...
...National Committee from 1954 to 1960, whose vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party and sharp criticism of his own party's leadership kept him in a constant swirl of controversy; of a heart attack; in Washington. A party wheelhorse in Indiana and Stevenson backer before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused...
Even with Congress in recess, the partisan snipers still plinked away. As the Republicans' leading sharpshooter, New York's Congressman William Miller, retreated to Florida to meditate the wisdom of surrendering either his chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee or his House seat, his fellow New Yorker, Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, helpfully counseled him to hang onto the latter. After the recent "Rocky-mandered" reapportionment of New York's congressional districts, gibed Celler, a Republican could not be unseated in Miller's district "by St. Gabriel himself." Responded Miller: ''I hope-for once...
...river was Charles Forte, 53, an Italian-born British citizen whose creation of a vast snack bar chain has made him one of the few Horatio Algers in Britain's welfare state. Last week, thanks to his angling with Mattei, Forte had a new job: the chairmanship of A.G.I.P. (Great Britain) Ltd., a new E.N.I. marketing subsidiary to which Mattei has given $8,400,000 and orders to build a chain of 70 super service stations in Britain...