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Father Worked, Mother Did. The Farm Bureau's many critics claim that Shuman's homespun ways are an affectation-that he actually rehearses his rusticity. "It takes a lot of practice for a girl to kiss like an amateur," sniffs one acquaintance. In Charlie Shuman's case, naturalness comes naturally...
...American Bar Association meeting in Miami last week, Edward Kuhn, a deceptively homespun Memphis lawyer, puffed on his cigar and pin pointed the urgent issue facing him as new president of the A.B.A. The bar, said Kuhn, is just waking up to the fact that millions of Americans yearn for group practice; events are outpacing the lawyer's one-to-one relationship with clients. Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution...
Smothered. To President James Z. Appel, a homespun general practitioner and surgeon from Lancaster, Pa., talk of a doctors' boycott, even euphemized under the name of "non-participation," was wrong and dangerous. Though he himself opposed the bill, Dr. Appel said that the medical profession "must participate in the actual implementation of the legislation if and when it becomes...
Mixing a little homespun verse with the great outdoors, Lady Bird quoted the lines of an anonymous staff member: "The heart that travels far is doubly blessed, first by a chance to roam and then to rest...
CHARLES IVES: NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAYS (Composer's Recordings, Inc.) Ives, who wove homespun materials into a startling modern fabric, is widely regarded as the prickly father of contemporary American composition. His four orchestral holiday pieces (1904-1913) are now assembled permanently for the first time in a quasi symphony; though-musical economics being what they are-all were recorded by foreign orchestras. Thus the Imperial Philharmonic Orchestra of Tokyo plays for the barn dance in Washington's Birthday, the Finnish Radio Symphony celebrates Decoration Day, Sweden's Goteborg Symphony the Fourth of July, the Iceland Symphony Thanksgiving...