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Gary Berger's fifteen-piece big band, which played first, showed how much it has improved. At last year's Quincy-Holmes jazz concert, the Berger band was hesitant and restrained. Now its voice no longer cracks, and its sound is bigger, smoother and surer. Also, the band has developed a group of soloists who can play in front of a big ensemble and still not sound thin and tremulous. Sam Saltostall's humorous trombone and the vigorous saxophones of Watanabe and Errol Burke provided some fine solo work...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Quincy-Holmes Jazz Concert | 3/16/1964 | See Source »

...Harvard Houses are represented; Leverett leads with 12 volunteers, followed by Eliot with 11, and Kirkland with ten. Fifteen of the volunteers concentrated in English, 10 in History, and 15 in Government, while five concentrated in Mathematics, which has the largest representation in the science field. Three of the 11 graduates who completed their srvice last year won Ford Fellowships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University May Renew Peace Corps Program | 3/14/1964 | See Source »

...waitress in Birmingham called out the colored cook to wait on us. The waitress in Anniston let us wait through the fifteen minute rest stop. The waitress in Columbus, Miss. spilled cream all over my brand new overalls. We expected a good whipping or at least a week in jail in war-like Winona, Miss., but they had replaced the cafeteria with vending machines. An ancient, bespectacled colonel offered me a quarter for my front seat as we approached Winona. I declined and he returned to the back of the bus. Jackson, Miss...

Author: By Claude Weaver, | Title: Letters From The Delta: Ole Miss As Police State | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...conclave know they hurt their own chances by talking about it. Senator Joseph Clark (D-Penn.), who is not a member, insured his continued ostracism by devoting three days on the floor last February to a description of what he called the "Senate Establishment" and to a list of fifteen reforms that would disestablish...

Author: By David R. Underhill, | Title: Is Congressional Reform Necessary? | 2/19/1964 | See Source »

Hollywood discovered nuclear war fifteen years ago. The Bomb has since provided stupendous finales for countless films which would have otherwise decomposed more slowly on their...

Author: By Curtis Hessler, | Title: Dr. Strangelove | 2/5/1964 | See Source »

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