Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Olivar, who has never really transferred his business interests to the East, has led a list of likely successors to Waldorf for several months. The Eli mentor coached the team of Loyola, of California, before coming to Yale in 1950 to replace Herman Hickman...
...Anybody Happy? Dave Brubeck is not stopping. Besides his inner drive, there is plenty of competition to keep him interested. Big bands continue to get off the ground (Count Basie, Woody Herman's "Third Herd," Duke Ellington). The nation is laced with touring jazz packages, e.g., "Jazz at the Philharmonic," with stars such as Pianist Oscar Peterson, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Singer Ella Fitzgerald. Serious composers continue to find stimulation in jazz; this month will see the U.S. premiere of a work by Swiss Composer Rolf Liebermann, a kind of concerto grosso in which the Sauter-Finegan band will...
...Calling Charles Ives, one of America's greatest composers, "an insurance broker who pioneered polytonal music in the U.S. in his spare time" [TIME, Sept. 27] is tantamount to saying that Herman Melville was a customs clerk who dabbled in literature or Goethe a theatrical manager who once in a while wrote a book...
...positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficult to recruit new members for the faculty in the near future." The same source expresses deep anxiety over the expansion of political control if Governor Herman Talmadge makes good his threat to make public schools "private schools" in order to contravene the Supreme Court's recent anti-segregation decision...
Shortly after receiving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Bergmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep.-Idaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...