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Rice accused Celanese and its advertising agency, Ellington & Co., of barring actors from TV for their political beliefs. Specifically, he said that the agency's attorney had refused to clear an actor* for the title role in Counsellor-at-Law "even after I pointed out that the actor in question had testified under oath before the House Committee on Un-American Activities that he is not and has never been a Communist." Said Rice: "I have repeatedly denounced the men who sit in the Kremlin for judging artists by political standards. I do not intend to acquiesce when...
...following men have been appointed for the coming year: Marvin A. Asnes '51, Research Asst., Advanced Production Problems; Vernon Alden '50, Administrative Asst. to Dean; Phillip S. Borden '50, Research Assoc., Elements of Administration-General; Charles G. Ellington '49, Research Assoc., Elements of Administration-General; Willis D. Gradison, Jr. '51, Research Asst., Invests Management; John M. Hamilton '49, search Assoc., 2nd year Account Robert A. McNearney '51, Research Assoc., Mobilization Analysis Center; Peter Massey, Jr., Research Assoc., Mobition Analysis Center; George M. Wmore, Jr. '51, Research Asst., Mobilization Analysis Center...
...later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington wrote "the most distinguished popular music since Johann Strauss...
...Victor, 5 vols. 45 r.p.m.). Victor's second installment of records recalling the time when bands were bands and maestros like Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Bunny Berigan were leading them...
...evolution of jazz styles has bored the public. The big bands find it hard to live and many of them have dissolved, reforming only for specific jobs. Count Basie works with a small combo . . . Duke Ellington has no following...