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Mary Shotwell Ingraham, civic leader, leading planner of the City University of New York, mother of Radcliffe College's President Mary I. Bunting L.H.D...
Died. Chester Irving Barnard, 74, civic servant and management expert who left the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. in 1948, after 21 years, to direct the Rockefeller Foundation (his 1952 successor: Dean Rusk), also served as World War II boss of U.S.O., State Department consultant on atomic policy; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...consistent goal for U.S. schools. In 1918 one famed N.E.A. group prescribed "health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home membership, vocational competence, effective citizenship, worthy use of leisure, and ethical character." In 1938 N.E.A.'s Educational Policies Commission called for "self-realization, human relationship, economic efficiency, and civic responsibility" (broken into 43 sub-goals, such as "efficiency in buying"). In 1951 N.E.A. undertook to provide ten more "values," including the Declaration of Independence's "pursuit of happiness...
...Nobody," says a fellow Bourbon Street trumpeter, "ever outblew Al." Even allowing for civic partisanship, the boast is not unreasonable. New Orleans Trumpeter Al ("The Monster") Hirt, 38, is a "center-lip" man who blows straight from the diaphragm and generates such a wind that trying to top him, testifies another associate, is like "blowing down the throat of a hurricane." In recent months, the hurricane has swirled through Las Vegas (The Dunes), Manhattan (Basin Street East) and the TV networks with an impact that has made Trumpeter Hirt one of the hottest properties in jazz...
...musical comedies, more than 500 songs (I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now), an ebullient entertainer for eight decades who married his ninth wife at 87, had just finished a benefit show, was blowing a kiss to his accompanist when he collapsed on the stage of the Civic Opera House; in Chicago...