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...same program was a sample of modern jazz, Larry Austin's Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists, in which Trumpeter Don Ellis, Drummer Joe Cocuzzo and Bassist Barre Phillips took off on some flights of fancy that had their opposite numbers among the Philharmonic deskmen slackjawed. Ellis hit licks on the music stand with the mouthpiece of his trumpet; Phillips performed tricks of bowing that Juilliard never taught. It was loud, and toward the end, it was every-man-for-himself. But it was also great fun for the performers and audience alike...
Since he took over the Berlin Philharmonic, Von Karajan has hired ten new first deskmen, has replaced 17 other instrumentalists. Under his direction, the orchestra has played less of the German classical repertory to devote more time to the moderns. The result, even the old hands admit, is worthy of the best of the Berlin Philharmonic's hallowed tradition...
...question was made painfully pertinent to the 157 editorial hands of Hearst's Detroit Times, which had just sold out to its healthier afternoon rival, the News (TIME, Nov. 21). Stunned by last-minute dismissal notices-some of them delivered by wire at 3 a.m.-the unemployed reporters, deskmen, photographers and copy boys turned unhappily to the job of finding another job. Last week, in a survey prepared for the journalism department of Wayne State University in Detroit, ex-Timesman Donald A. Morris, 26, reported how they made...
Additional Teletype service from the Associated Press and United Press International enabled TIME'S election-night communications network to receive more than 142,000 printed words an hour. A staff of 28 copy deskmen routed this material to writers and editors all through the night; a force of reference librarians dug out background material. At each candidate's election-night headquarters, TIME had its own special wirephoto arrangements to transmit pictures...
...journalistic form, the movie review has descended to the level of the pressagent's blurb-a blurb commonly reprinted by newspapers too idle or strapped to staff a reviewer. A few perceptive, readable critics are still at critical work. But many papers leave the job to worn-out deskmen, middle-aged ladies (the New York Daily News has three) or unqualified cubs, or else, like the Des Moines Tribune, spread it through the city room, at $3 a review...