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Died. John Finley Williamson, 76, founder of the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., whose aim was to restore to choral music the prestige it enjoyed in the days of Palestrina and Bach, over 40 years built one of the most highly respected choirs in the U.S., saw his students create carbon-copy "Westminster Choirs" in such faraway lands as Japan and India; of a heart attack; in Toledo...
...Special Committee to Review the Present Status and Problems of the General Education Program, released yesterday. Headed by Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, the group also includes Bernard Bailyn, professor of History; Paul H. Buck, former dean of the Faculty; Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House and chairman of the Committee on General Education; Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House; Leo Goldberg '34, Higgins Professor of Astronomy; Dean Monro; and David D. Perkins '51, associate professor of English. Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, sat with the committee until...
...still only vaguely seen. We would hope that some day every undergraduate would be able to extend his experience in college from the verbal to the non-verbal arts, from appreciating to creating, in ways that maintain something of the discipline of his efforts within the departments....5JOHN H. FINLEY...
...major surprises have been the strength of Washington's neophyte Nats and Finley's flourescent Kansas City Athletics. Rocky Colavito and Jim Gentile have given Finley home run power in any park, and the Senators have managed to get as impressive 137 RBIs (second to Minnesota's astounding 182) from a most unassuming lot. Bill Skowron and Chuck Hinton will louse up many would-be champs...
...Kansas City Athletics have trouble hitting a ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...