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...makings of a first-rate organization. Helped by a $765,000 budget (twice that of 1965), Shaw has already bolstered the ranks with additional musicians, instilled greater rigor and purpose into rehearsals, formed a new 60-voice chorus, and expanded the season to include chamber music, an offbeat "Connoisseur Series" and some light promenade concerts. His programs for the coming year balance Atlanta's traditionally romantic fare with more music from the baroque and classic periods as well as 20th century works ranging from Bartok to Gunther Schuller. "He's brought a lot more discipline to this group...
...wealth of invention and artistry in the history of firearms is handsomely pictured and chronicled (see color opposite) in One Hundred Great Guns, due to be published next month by Walker & Co. ($19.95). The 384-page volume was written by Manhattan Gun Connoisseur Merrill Lindsay and illustrated by Bruce Pendleton, who spent two years photographing the finest in firearms in museums and private collections around the world...
Languorous Narrative. The pop-music industry, always alert for new categories, sees in Billie Joe a lot more than that. There is talk of a new division of the already thin-sliced rock-'n'-roll world; the song, says a rock connoisseur, is the world's first example of "folk-rock narrative." It is also the only one; the other songs in the album are straightforward, pleasant folk ballads...
...city's Spanish language El Diario-La Prensa, has met with officials of seven newspaper unions in the hope of putting out a standard-size afternoon daily patterned after the Chicago Tribune. Chalk "did not make specific proposals," said a man who is something of a connoisseur of specific proposals, Bert Powers, president of the New York Typographical Union...
...reporters who established a highly personal, flamboyant p.r. style. One was Bernays, now 75 and retired, who thought like a eupeptic Machiavelli and talked like a psychology professor (his uncle, as he has never forgotten, was Sigmund Freud). The second was Benjamin Sonnenberg, now 65 and semiretired, a connoisseur both of power and pleasure who established himself in an antique-crammed house on Manhattan's Gramercy Park, where he could play his favorite game: making his clients feel they were doing well just to be seen with him. The third was Carl Byoir, who died ten years...