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...STAN KENTON--Great music finds its way to remote places. Franklin High School is hosting the Stan Kenton band this weekend. The school is about one mile east of Route 495 on Route 140, about 25 miles out of Boston. This is probably worth the trek...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "Cosmos" and "Meditation" by Jordan Belson and "Man of Aran" by Robert Flaherty. Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m., 31. "Steamboat Bill Jr." by Buster Kenton...
Some 40 other firms have jumped into a market that now amounts to several hundred million dollars annually. Kenton Corp. began its Georg Jensen porcelain series by offering plates painted with an Andrew Wyeth winter scene. A limited edition of 12,500 plates cost $50 each; a "super-limited" edition of 275 numbered and signed pieces went for $350 each. Says Ralph Destino, president of Kenton's wholesale division: "I can sell a nice dinner plate for $5, but if I take off the rose pattern and put on a Wyeth painting, I can sell...
...Geneen once publicly chastised an executive almost to the point of making him weep, then gave him a $10,000 raise. Moreover, executives who do well under Geneen are eagerly sought by headhunters. ITT graduates include Charles T. Ireland, president of CBS, and Robert Kenmore, chairman of the big Kenton Corp...
Brassy Bursts. In the minds of many jazz fans, the big band epitomizes today's vogue for the nostalgia trip. Jones and Lewis, in fact, met at a "battle" of the big bands-Count Basie v. Stan Kenton-in a Detroit hotel 15 years ago. Thad was a trumpeter with Basie, Mel the drummer behind Kenton's brassy behemoth. They both might be forgiven any nostalgia they cared to indulge in. Neither of them cares to. They would no more ape Woody Herman or Tommy Dorsey than sit behind monogrammed music stands. Besides, yesterday's big-band...