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...pool of music and composers to draw on. This week 33 ASCAP songwriters filed a civil suit against BMI, the networks and their related record companies, charging conspiracy and discrimination to keep non-BMI music from being heard as often as it should be. Among the 33: Ira (I Got Rhythm] Gershwin. Arthur (Dancing in the Dark] Schwartz, Dorothy (I Can't Give Yon Anything but Love) Fields. Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti. They reckon that they and other non-BMI composers have collectively lost $50 million in royalties in the past decade. Their demand: triple damages ($150 million...
...Class of 1879 was the moving spirit behind the agitation for a new seating system. Originally, the Class had offered to donate its 25th anniversary gift for the construction of new wooden stands. But Professor Ira N. Hollis, Chairman of the Harvard Athletic Committee, had more ambitions plans--he would build a permanent areus. The Class of 1879 was delighted with the bold ideas...
...IRA M. FREEMAN
...body of Pfc. Alton B. Sterner, killed last June in Korea, came home to Rockwood (pop. 1,237), Pa., with an official Army escort, Sergeant Ira Frank Green, 25. He had known Sterner and had been in correspondence with the dead man's 19-year-old widow Alma. Green asked Alma to marry him. The widow quickly said...
...late to do anything about the situation for that evening. However, I hope that this will not be repeated again, whether it be a football weekend, or the next time a fraction of Harvard men get dressed up for a Big Dance. Ira Rabkin...