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...President's wary old campaign enemy, Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and a spokesman for the nation's Baptists, many of whom have traditionally feared the idea of a Catholic for President. "Baptists in the United States," said Executive Director Emanuel Carlson of the church's Joint Committee on Public Affairs, "are overwhelmingly in agreement with the views of the President that aid to sectarian institutions is clearly unconstitutional." Harvard's ex-President James Bryant Conant, an educators' educator, placed himself "in agreement with those who feel that public...
Last week Democrats moved to take the victor's share of the spoils. Brooklyn's Congressman Emanuel Celler introduced a bill to create not 40 but 63 new federal judgeships. There was no indication from anywhere inside the Democratic Party that there would be any such nonsense as filling half the new posts with Republicans...
Died. Victor Emanuel, 62, a flamboyant operator from Dayton (AVCO, Republic Steel Corp.) and Government adviser (Aircraft Production Council, advisory committee of U.S. Senate Banking and Currency Committee), who liked to put knowledgeable Washingtonians, e.g., Presidential Crony George Allen, on his boards of directors; of a heart attack; in Ithaca, N.Y. The Depression wiped out a billion dollar utility empire, but Financier Emanuel bounced back as high as ever...
Capitalist by Accident. The millionaire proprietor of this Midwest publishing empire never intended to be a capitalist. Son of an immigrant Russian-Jewish bookbinder, Emanuel Julius left school with a grammar school education, drifted around in the free-thinking Socialist currents of his time. He tried reporting for Socialist newspapers in Milwaukee and New York, in 1915 went out to Girard, Kans., to help resuscitate Appeal to Reason, a moribund Socialist periodical. After marrying Marcet Haldeman, a Girard banker's daughter, he borrowed $250,000 from her to buy the paper...
...Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (third son of Johann Sebastian) described the pitfalls of harpsichord playing, adding that a good harpsichord performer must have "das Schnellen" (the snap), achieved by imitating with one's fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...