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...Harris is the one who does the most brooding and the heaviest word-slinging about what he writes. Last week Cleveland heard the first complete performance of his Folk-Song Symphony for orchestra and chorus, which he wrote "to bring about a cultural cooperation and understanding between the highschool, college and community cho ruses of our cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community." Composer Harris wrote his symphony last winter, had part of it performed and broadcast at an Eastman festival in Rochester last spring. Cleveland got first crack at the whole work...
...Last week the sophisticated began calling him El Buchudo, he of the double chin. Pudgy though he is, Avila Camacho keeps himself in good condition, mostly by riding and walking. A Mexican is nothing if he cannot make himself look like part of a horse. Avila Camacho's "highschool" horse Pavo (Peacock) went through his dance steps in the New York horse show last month, and the new President has made many gringo friends by way of his two-goal polo, which is sharpened to the verge of three-goal by clever, tricky play. His favorite polo pony...
...House. As long as the band was allowed to play what it wanted to, and to play it at a reckless volume, their music was fairly good. As soon as the house committee got on the ball and demanded "soft--and sweet," the band sounded like a bunch of highschool musicians on their first job. Moral: Don't expect soft swing or good sweet from a band unless you pay for it. . . . Dunster House decided at the last minute not to get Red Norvo for their dance on March 1, and settled on localite Buddy Trask. While Trask...
...Highschool classes were so crowded (because of a shortage of teachers) that students had to stand up, had to wear their coats from class to class because there was no place to put them...
Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...