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...symposium on race relations in early April will include Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Senator Dennis Chavez of New Mexico; and Leon Birkhead, director of Friends for Democracy...
...Honolulu, the U.S. Government will pay the bills of veterans who want to learn the hula. In California, the Animal Lovers Association will teach an ex-G.I. to train rodeo horses-by correspondence course. He can study "sleight of hand and prestidigitation" at the Chavez School of Magic, or master the art of makeup at the San Joaquin College of Cosmetology. Other schools will show the ex-G.I. (for tuitions curiously close to the legal maximum of $500) how to make candy, model for ads, decorate a cake...
...Santa Fe, General Pat Hurley, rambunctious ex-Ambassador to China, asked his friends to dissolve New Mexico's 19 "Hurley-for-President" Clubs, decided to take another crack at the Senate instead. Edged out last time by Democrat Dennis Chavez, Republican Hurley this time would take on shrewd Carl Hatch...
...closing feature of the three day symposium of music criticism, Martha Graham and her dance company staged two ballets, "Dark Meadow," with music by Carlos Chavez, and "Night Journey," with music by William Schuman, Saturday evening at the Cambridge High and Latin School. Both works were commissioned for Miss Graham, who was the author of their choreography, by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress. "Dark Meadow" had been presented before, but Saturday night's audience was the first to witness "Night Journey...
...Chavez's music reveals the expressive content of its choreography in general, if not unvarying success; it has both discreetly employed dissonance and pungency and melodic inventiveness. Sometimes it gives a sense of conventionality as well as of skill, while the closing episode provides some of the most expressively persuasive measures of the score...