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Blair's enthusiasm is shared by altruist Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, 84. He opened the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London two years ago and claims it is "for the high-minded and hardheaded." The school requires no academic background, and students' ages range from the 20s to the 70s with the majority of the 40 men and women graduates it has turned out so far in their 40s. It offers eight weeks of seminars to build skills in fund raising, marketing and accounting; students gain practical experience and test their ideas by working on a real project...
...hired Clock in the spring of 1959. His credentials were varied. London-born, Clock studied piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin in the early '303, returned to London to write music criticism, and founded a summer school (which he still runs) for composers and performers at Dartington, in Devon. Working on the theory that he could include two new works in a four-work program without losing his audience, Clock started his new job by sprucing up not only the Prom concerts but also the repertories of the three BBC regional orchestras. He also began handing out commissions...
...ballet, The Green Table, was put on as a free show for 350 U.N. staff members, delegates and their wives at Manhattan's City Center. It had been danced some 2,500 times here & abroad. After World War II came, Jooss (pronounced yose) and his dancers returned to Dartington Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst's fabulous cultural hothouse in Devon, England, later performed regularly for Britons and Allied troops. The 26-man Jooss Ballet is now touring the U.S. for the first time since...
Personable "Mike" Straight went to school at his mother's vast Dartington Hall experimental colony in England, got an economics degree at Cambridge, returned to the U.S. to work as a State Department economist. He later helped Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen ghostwrite New Deal speeches, reported off & on for the New Republic, worked up to be the family corporation's watchdog on the staff...
Married. Michael Whitney Straight, 23, son of the late Willard Dickerman Straight, founder of the New Republic and Asia, and of Mrs. Leonard Knight Elm-hirst, queen of Dartington Hall, vast educational experiment in Devonshire, England; and Belinda Booth Crompton, 19; in Wilton...