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Even more dangerous than the floating leather-jacket set are the sight-seeing excursion boats which look like leftovers from the Mississippi River. For something like a dollar you can get on down in Boston and travel past Dunster House, all the way up to Watertown. It is a round...
As a result of that excursion into contemporary music, the Ajemians began to meet composers, notably Boston's Alan Hovhaness (who is half-Armenian, half-Scottish). They felt sorry for "the poor composer who knocks himself out writing new music and then can't hear it played."
At 18, a Brazilian musician named Heitor Villa-Lobos sold some rare books left him by his father and, jingling his spending money, took off for the jungle. For the next few years he inhaled a lot of folk music, warmed it in his own prodigally creative imagination and exhaled...
As publisher and columnist of the Boston Post, Financial Juggler and Amateur Journalist John Fox last year predicted a major depression in the U.S. The prediction proved spectacularly wrong for everyone but the Post. Since his forecast, his circulation has slumped. A fortnight ago he fired 58 Postmen for economy...
With the election already stale news, scores of freshmen Congressmen have only to plan their grand excursion to Washington. But eight men who will stay near home for the next few years are making far more important decisions that will influence U.S. politics for years to come.