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...Atlanta's Morehouse is a highly selective producer of Negro leaders; its President Benjamin Mays is perhaps the best-known Negro educator in the U.S. Not far behind these three are Alabama's Tuskegee, where Botanist George Washington Carver did his work, and Virginia's Hampton Institute, the nation's most richly endowed ($19 million) private Negro college...
Social Saviour. To see the Met open its 77th season, the audience paid a record-breaking $94,294.50 at the box office, with orchestra seats going for $45 apiece and an eight-seat box for $650. The crowd was enthusiastic, glittering (inveterate Social Moth Hope Hampton, a onetime operatic hopeful, appeared splattered with sequins, chinchilla and diamonds), but, as Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker reminded his readers, scarcely Top Drawer. The Old Guard, as opposed to Publiciety, celebrates the opening on the second Monday of the season. What saved the night socially, according to Knickerbocker, was the presence of Labor Secretary Arthur...
Swing Classics (Lionel Hampton and his jazz groups; RCA Victor). A collection of some of the hallelujah blasts-Whoa Babe, Central Avenue Breakdown, Jivin' with Jarvis-that made Hampton tall on the bandstand back in the late '30s, when most of these tracks were recorded. The assorted personnel-Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie. Coleman Hawkins, Jess Stacy-are first-rate, and the unremitting frenzy of their attack is a fine antidote to the cool moods of modern chamber jazz...
...East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: The famed Eugene lonesco duo, The Chairs and The Bald Soprano...
...East Hampton, N.Y., John Drew Theater: A new musical called All Kinds of Giants...