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...there is a fourth. In the hands of Los Angeles-born Gary Karr, 26, the bass sings instead of croaks, and it sings with all the richness of the cello, the warmth of the viola and the agility of the violin. Yet Karr is not content simply to be the master of a narrow field. He wants to broaden the field-by revamping the technique of bass playing and bringing the instrument into its own as a solo voice. "My intention is to start revolutions," he says. "Most bass music doesn't demand very much, and most bass players...
Slow Bow. Karr is building a movement. Next year he will be teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, Boston's New England Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin. He publishes a magazine (The Bass Sound Post) and organizes annual conferences for the 1,000-member International Institute for the String Bass, which he founded and heads. He champions improvements in bass design: his own custom-made instrument has, among other features, a special thick-bellied shape for resonance and carrying power and an unusually close spacing between the strings and fingerboard for easier fingering...
...Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father of six and a teacher at Michigan's Alpena Community College, browsed in the doorway of a newsstand after working all morning in the college library. He was shot dead on the spot. A few steps farther up the street, Senior Thomas Karr, 24, was walking sleepily toward his apartment after staying up almost all night for a 10 a.m. exam when he dropped to the pavement, dying...
...ANDY KARR...
...decisive executive, Strichman is expected to reorganize Fairbanks Whitney completely, and to decentralize far more than did Karr. "One man," he says, "simply cannot run a company as widespread as Fairbanks Whitney. We will have to have a period of very tight control, but within 18 months I hope to start delegating as much authority and responsibility as possible." Strichman faces so many problems that without quick successes he might go the way of his predecessors. Already a group of disgruntled stockholders is talking up another proxy fight...