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...York's two G.O.P. Senators share more than a party label, a liberal philosophy and a geographic bond. After taping a TV interview at a Washington sound studio, balding Senior Senator Jacob Javits, 58, and white-thicketed Junior Senator Kenneth Keating, 62. celebrated their common birthday-May 18-by puffing out the candles on a pair of personalized cakes. Thoughtful to a fault, Keating came up with a special gift for campaign-bound Colleague Javits, up for re-election this fall: two packets of foot balm...
Opposite Directions. At first glance, it might seem as if Jacob Landau, 44, had come out of the same school as Robert Broderson, 41. In both Cinna the Poet (overleaf) and New Myth-Mine Disaster (last color page), the tortured figures look as if they were about to be torn apart...
...Ensemble naturally had trouble programming music consistently worth hearing, for the medium's traditional association with band music has laid it open to dull, unadventurous treatment. Gordon Jacob, for instance, may have called his 1928 piece for winds An Original Suite, but I don't know who he thought he was kidding even then. Peter Mennin likewise sticks by an outworn style of folksy nostalgia in his 1951 Canzona. Vaughan Williams' Toccata Martiale, on the other hand, succeeds because his use of national flavor is tied to a distinct personal idiom, and the ensemble fortunately rallied its coordination...
Last week this alluring dream came true for one of them: pert, dark-haired Marion Javits,* 37. wife of the Republican Senator from New York, Jacob Javits, 57. Mrs. Javits signed on for a twice-a-week stint with the New York Post (circ. 313,349), a paper whose liberalism exceeds even that of Marion Javits' spouse...
...noted Israeli scholar has been named visiting professor of Hebrew and Jewish History at the University next year. Jacob Kats, dean of the Elieser Kaplan School of Economics and Social Sciences at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, tought school in Palestine-Israel from 1934 until 1950, when he joined the faculty off Hebrew University. He has been dean there since...