Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Killmayer: Missa Brevis and Harrison: Mass (Margaret Hillis conducting the New York Concert Choir and Orchestra; Epic). The Fromm Music Foundation, joint sponsor with Epic records of the excellent Twentieth Century Composers Series, takes a look at current choral writing. Young (29) Munich-born Composer Wilhelm Killmayer's Missa Brevis ripples with exciting, shifting rhythms and rises skillfully to a colorful series of blasting choral climaxes occasionally more reminiscent of the bandstand than the choir. Oregon-born Composer Lou Harrison, 39, found the inspiration for his moving, low-pitched Mass in the percussion-accompanied plain song of the Indians...
...broke inside from the edge of the field, and the Crimson was a little slow getting across in defense. Four-letter man Mike White got the ball some five yards out, and fell just over the line with three Crimson ruggers hanging desperately on. Australian John Harrison made no mistake with the relatively easy kick...
Parsifal on the Capehart. When Mummy finally stumbled out of her marriage to John Barrymore, she married Wall Street Attorney Harrison Tweed, returned to the Social Register and determined to make a lady of Diana. The girl was sent to Miss Hewitt's Classes (where "the Astors and Vanderbilts always voted for each other in class elections"), to the Brearley School and to Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note...
...branches in the U.S. and abroad, placed 50,000 such women (average age: 42) in temporary jobs, even used a retired 72-year-old secretary in Boston. Another line of attack is through increasing office mechanization. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. has recently set up a highly mechanized office in Harrison, N.Y., in which executives can dictate to 24 recording machines in a central transcription room, where expert typists quickly do the work. Yet mechanization is not the final answer. The girls find the work boring and faceless. And a machine can't go out on its lunch hour...
Appearing on Gossipist Hy Gardner's TV interview show, Super-Gossipist Robert Harrison, muckraking publisher of Confidential, disclosed that the perils of his grubby profession are so great that nobody will sell him any life insurance. Added Scandalmonger Harrison: "And neither can our editors buy life insurance." Asked if his mother knows what he does for a living, Harrison colored a trifle, replied...