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Married. Dr. Howard Hanson, 49, Pulitzer Prizewinning conductor-composer (Symphony No. 4, Opus 34, Merry Mount), director of the Eastman School of Music, longtime cymbal-dasher for U.S. composers; and Margaret Elizabeth Nelson, 31, Pittsburgh Junior Leaguer; both for the first time; at Chautauqua...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take...
...Republican Joe R. ("Holy Joe") Hanley, 67, ex-jockey, ex-Chautauqua lecturer, ex-Methodist-Episcopal preacher, has served for 17 years as a legislator from Perry, N.Y. (pop. 4,468). Candidate Hanley sidled into his campaign with a mighty shove from Dewey's potent state machine. Said he: "Tom Dewey has said he is not a candidate [for President] . . . I have no reason to doubt his word. . . . If such a thing does happen, however, it is very vital that you have a Republican to go in there...
...estimated ten million read his syndicated newspaper column, A Daily Thought. At the invitation of women's and culture clubs, lyceums and Chautauqua, Phelps delivered some 10,000 cheery lectures to some five million delighted listeners. On the air for Swift's hams and the Heinz 57 varieties, he was the literate housewife's delight. To his equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes...
There 80-odd scholarly Europeans and Americans had a marvelous time. For Mount Holyoke, long a home of ultra-serious-minded education, was trying earnestly to take the place of Burgundy's 12th-Century Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, until 1939 a sort of Chautauqua for Europe's top-drawer intellectuals...