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...night figure of 14,000 to be topped this season. The concerts run an annual deficit of $80,000 to $100,000, but that is a minor problem as long as Lewisohn's spiritual and financial godmother, Minnie Guggenheimer, taps her who's-who list of rich, civic-minded New Yorkers...
...GADSDEN, ALA. Negro leaders agreed to suspend the mass demonstrations that kept Gadsden on edge for more than three weeks after city buses were desegregated, and white civic leaders agreed to negotiate other integration demands...
...again-on-again courtship. Says Shriver: "She's a hard person to sell-tough as her father." They settled down in a 14-room duplex in Chicago, produced three bright-eyed kids (Robert Sargent III, 9; Maria, 7; and Timothy, 3). Shriver got deeply involved in civic affairs-as a good Kennedy in-law would-including five years on the Chicago board of education. He resigned from the Merchandise Mart, got a generous separation settlement from his father-in-law, took his Peace Corps position for a dollar a year...
...will include works by Schuts, Byrd, Janequin, Barber and Bach. The Chorus, under the direction of Iva Dee Hiatt, associate Josquin, this concert will be sung on professor of Music and director of choral music at Smith College, will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra drawn from the Cambridge Civic Symphony...
This might have been the reaction anywhere, but it was predictable in the particular community where Play opened, the ancient Danube town of Ulm, where the municipal theater rivals the famed Gothic cathedral as a source of civic pride. Most German cities and towns think of their municipal theaters as U.S. cities regard their libraries-a permanent and serious public responsibility. There are 130 in West Germany. Audiences attend them with solemn zeal for Kultur, a turn of mind that ignores entertainment for the sake of education. The result is a theater unique in the world...