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...Died. Wilfred Theodore ("Ted") Weems, 62, bandleader and creator of the "businessman's bounce," which carried him to the top of the bigtime in the '30s and again briefly in 1947 when his Heartaches was a surprise smash, bringing the flappers-turned-matrons back for just one more go-round; of a pulmonary emphysema; in Tulsa, Okla...
...scattered early Christian churches turned into The Church, the direct relationship between the individual human being and the Creator had to be broadened to include society. Ever since, the intellectual and spiritual history of Western man has been a great, ever-varying triangle of God, the individual and the community...
...Every esthetic in my opinion is based on doubt," he said. "Doubt assures the necessary distance between the creator and his own work. Without this distance we lack self-judgment." Boulez cited the example of his first place for two pianos, in which he tried completely to negate expressionism. "By being purely automatic, relying on purely rational relations, I found the necessity of personal intervention. When you are not strong enough to destroy yourself., you cannot find another life...
Some church groups hold that gambling is sinful. Newspapers often rail against its iniquities: the Detroit News recently warned that legalized gambling can only create a great "assemblage of shills, touts, confidence men, fast-dollar operators and freebooters." Politicians piously denounce gambling as a creator of corruptness. Yet for all that, legalized gambling is booming across the U.S., and for a simple reason: the revenue-hungry states have discovered that gambling, though it may be wicked, produces money that is as good as gold...
...will "attract all the least energetic minds in the University," the creator of the course, William W. Howells '30, professor of Anthropology, said yesterday...