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Howard Hanson is a musical conservative who has probably done more than any other American composer to promote new and experimental music. For 40 years, before his retirement in 1964 as director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
...EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). The Hamster of Happiness, starring Mildred Dunnock, presents a new actress (Susan Tyrrell) and a new playwright (Charles Eastman) with a story about a cantankerous woman and her frightened daughter...
...town that boasts the home offices of Eastman Kodak and Xerox, Rochester, N.Y., has a lot of candidates for a winner of its Salesman of the Year award. This year, though, the Chamber of Commerce passed up the boys with the order books and reached into the Rochester Roman Catholic Archdiocese to hail Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 72, for his "outstanding job of selling Rochester to the country, to the world and to itself...
...Eastman Kodak Co. has a Swiss man ager in Italy, a Dutchman in Portugal and a Cuban in Venezuela. SGS-Fair-child, European subsidiary of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., advertises its management staff as "an SGS-Fair-child cocktail: one part Italian, four parts British, one part French, one part Swedish, one part German, served with an American olive...
...Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives. "Objectivist" Ayn Rand, who believes that all human activity should be self-serving, refuses even to appear in the same room with Buckley because the Review panned her novel Atlas Shrugged. Max Eastman resigned, with barbs on both sides, after he accused Buckley of tying conservatism too closely to religion...