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...STORY OF YOUNG KING ARTHUR (by Clifton Fadiman, illustrated by Paul Liberovsky; Random House; $1.50). Like the actor who plays Hamlet, no author can wholly fail when telling the Arthurian saga. While no Malory or even a T. H. White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences...
Holst's First Suite for Military Band has a few attractive folk tunes but moves along with commonplace ostinatos and harmonies; Clifton Williams' Concertino blusters with some excitement and nothing more. And the empty pomposity of William Latham's Proud Heritage makes one proud of nothing at all. The performances, nonetheless, were clean and the band's sound maintained that peculiar vitality which good wind playing must have...
...morning last week, President Kennedy's military aide, Brigadier General Chester Clifton, got an urgent telephone call. He told the caller to telephone the President at his weekend home in Middleburg, Va. Shortly afterward, in keeping with instructions he had given, the President was awakened and told that an invasion force of Cuban revolutionaries had landed as planned on the south coast of Cuba. So began John F. Kennedy's darkest and bitterest week as President...
...clubs start swinging. He works out the best possible arrangement before he makes a move." Between shots, Kennedy normally appears carefree, needling his partners with sharp quips. But last week his fairway stroll frequently turned serious as Press Secretary Pierre Salinger or Army Aide Brigadier General Chester V. Clifton rushed to the course with reports on affairs of state...
...Clifton Reginald Wharton, 61, to Norway. A foreign service man for 34 years, Wharton is the first U.S. Negro career diplomat to be named an ambassador. Born in Baltimore, he got his law degree at Boston University (cum laude), at first served primarily in African countries, was appointed President Eisenhower's Minister to Communist Rumania...