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Carl G. Strandlund, inventor of the Lustron prefabricated house and one of the most unsuccessful big businessmen in the nation, did little to mend matters. He claimed angrily that RFC Director Walter L. Dunham of Detroit (who said he had a heart condition which would permit his appearing privately, but would kick up if he talked in public) had participated with Young and others in a scheme to seize control of the Lustron Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that...
...unit was rounded out by the addition of two classmates, bassist Herbert Levin '52 and pianist Hoagie Dunham...
...night Dunham showed up with a girl who could sing. He had met Barbara Leacock, Wellesley '51, on a blind date. The good-looking brunette had a voice that pleased Dunham's fellow musicians and she became a featured vocalist on the band's College engagements during the following year. They put on two concerts in the Lowell House Junior Common Room and broadcast Monday nights...
...dance also raised temperatures at the Holland Music Festival, where Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham & company last week presented her torrid Caribbean Rhapsody. The Dutch had never seen anything quite like her. Dancer Dunham did not wear a pearl in her navel (as she did in Tropical Revue), but some of the audience were nevertheless overcome by all the pelvic commotion, hesitated in bewilderment before applauding. Most of the audience, however, got the idea: they were seeing precise dancing and brilliant choreography. The Dutch critics were two-minded about her. Wrote one: "Mostly it is sheer vitality, but sometimes sheer corn...
...weeks that followed, Preview steadied down into a sense-making 30 minutes, with the emphasis switched from news to guest stars. Last week, Preview took an editorial look at the phrasemaking of Winston Churchill. Then it turned quickly to such eye-catching items as the Katherine Dunham dancers, Singer Eugenie Baird, Cinemactor Kirk Douglas. It was a crisp, entertaining, fast-paced show, and its climbing Hooperating put it right up in the first ten. But it was no longer a news-reporting "magazine of the air." More & more, McCrary's Preview was beginning to look like that...