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Unforgettable Exordium. The program opens with a roll of drums and a dashing fanfare of twelve trumpets that ends in a sad plop. The fanfare is followed by Composer Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, dedicated to "President Hoover" (says the program note: "The momentous opening-the beginning of an introduction that is to contain the foreshadowings of all the principal thematic material-is among the unforgettable exordiums of music, echoing, as it does, what might be called the elemental power of the ethos of sublimity . . ."). The Overture is scored for "a prodigious array of percussion, pitched...
Died. William Grove (Bill) Skelly, 78, founder and board chairman of Skelly Oil Co., a Republican power in Oklahoma, where he dished out federal patronage during the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Known as "Mr. Tulsa," he donated more than $250,000 to Tulsa University; of a kidney ailment; in Tulsa...
...Named Air Force Secretary: James Henderson Douglas Jr., 58, longtime Chicago corporation lawyer who has been Under Secretary since 1953, served as President Hoover's youthful Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. A subpar golfer during student days at Princeton, Cambridge and Harvard Law, he advanced in 1921 to the British Amateur quarterfinals, still shoots in the mid-1970s, though he plays only occasionally...
...Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism suits the G.O.P. rank and file just fine. Between "Liberal Republicanism" represented by Ike, Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, and "Conservative Republicanism" represented by the late Robert Taft, William Knowland and Herbert Hoover, the Eisenhower side won a thundering vote of confidence: 74% to 18% among Republican voters, 75% to 11% among Independents...
...remembers most vividly the agony of the Great Depression, as well as the years of stupidity which preceded it, your March 11 review of The Age of Roosevelt was most interesting. Who wrote it? Herbert Hoover...