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Died. Ziggy Elman, 54, self-taught trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness...
Jeffrey L. Elman '69, HEP director, stated yesterday that he had received the gift from the Stern Family Foundation of Washington, D.C. He said that $1500 of the grant was allotted to Project-related research he is doing this summer, and the remainder will be used to pay salaries to section men in the seminars. There might be some money left over, which would be used next spring to finance the writing of preliminary reports for the HEP, Elman added...
...Elman announced the seminars last week, before he had any money. If the grant had not come through, he explained yesterday; "we would have gone ahead with it, hoping to get section men to work for no money...
Students will be able to get credits for the seminars as Independent Study, Elman said...
Students will get credit for the seminars through independent Study which will be arranged by the HEP, according to Jeffrey L. Elman '69, HEP director. "There is a frightening number of Harvard courses which are not only irrelevant but bring," he said. "The general catalogue is not responsive enough to student interests...