Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, asserted last night that radio had "capitulated to greed" by turning over to advertisers network time formerly devoted to music. Hanson opened the Louis C. Elson Memorial Music Lectures at Paine Hall...
...Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York, will get the Louis C. Elison lectures on music under way tomorrow and Thursday evenings. His first subject will be "The Materials of Music." The lectures are scheduled for 8:15 o'clock in Paine Hall...
There was nothing comic, however, about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...moral objectors were already out in the open. They were labor leaders, church leaders, many educators (but not all), Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin, Physicist Albert Einstein, and such groups as the National Council Against Conscription. The council, in a pamphlet endorsed by Einstein, argued that U.M.T. would further a military influence which they saw already creeping into too many phases of U.S. life, including even the Boy Scouts of America. U.M.T., they argued, ran counter to the nation's traditions and expressed ideals. U.M.T. would be interpreted by the world as a warlike threat...
Colorado College, founded by a Union general, last week also reached for a West Pointer instead of a scholar. Its new head: lean, weather-beaten Major General William Hanson Gill, 61, who rebuilt the shattered 32nd Division after the Buna campaign, led it back to Leyte (TIME, Dec. 4,1944), defeated General Yamashita...