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High Living. In Kalamazoo, Mich., when Richard M. Horn was fined $10 plus $4.30 in court costs for filching a 75? item from a grocery, he pulled out four $100 bills, demanded that one of them be changed, explained that he never carried small stuff around with...
...school board of Parchment, Mich, (pop. 1,500), near Kalamazoo, last week faced an astonishing dilemma. For $30,000 it must build either 1) two new classrooms at an overcrowded elementary school, or 2) a fancy band room at the brand-new Parchment High School. Why is the band room more important? Because the high school is not yet accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools-and apparently will not be without a band room...
...LINCOLNHOL Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Mich...
Almanacs to Teach. Now and then Koch owes a nod to Ogden Nash ("For what is nice in Kalamazoo's its monicker. As in Atlantic City Miss America"), but just as often he writes a line that is patently new and pleasant. When all the girls in Kansas take off their clothes (there may be a metaphysical insight here, after all) Koch observes that their bodies are "almanacs to teach . . . the poet how to shape his lines. The woodsman what is lacking in the pines." All manner of things happen to the author's creatures; Ko pitches...
Born into a nonmusical family (his father is a Westinghouse distributor) of mixed German-Dutch ancestry, Schippers at eight shocked his parents, staunch members of the Bethany (Dutch) Reformed Church, by joining St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo-because it had a good boys' choir. Schippers managed to finish high school when he was 13, moved to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. After graduation he got a series of pickup jobs that led to Consul (he caught Composer Menotti's attention while coaching singers for the show) and to the Met, which signed...