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...being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll. We throwed them out on their ears...
...convention was started by Van Hoy's father, H. P. Van Hoy, as a means of raising funds for the school Over the years, half of the gate receipts, which now total $60,000, has gone to the school, while the other half has been divided among the competing bands to pay their travel expenses...
...JOHN C. HOY Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn...
...Wars. In 1929 he took a plunge into diplomacy by becoming Ambassador to Cuba, spent much of his time prevailing on Dictator Machado y Morales not to murder too many of his political opponents. He has married three times, bred race horses on his 11,000-acre estate, Cain Hoy, in South Carolina, and supervised various family interests, including Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...Replacing the old Communist Party paper Hoy (done away with last October) and named after the 62-ft. yacht in which Fidel and 8-1 followers sailed from Mexico to launch the Cuban revolution. The name is a corruption of "Grandmother...