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...when it was "all dixie with a modern jazz splinter" to today, when a student can remark: "Dixie's joe-college stuff; you find it in your state universities, or maybe at Brown, but it's out of place here." In the opinion of most observers Steve Kuhn, more than any other force, has caused this change to a modern jazz approach from the neo-dixie outlook...
...Kuhn merits his "professional" status for a record of sessions with Coleman Hawkins, Don Elliott, Chet Baker, and other jazz luminaries. He has also played Storyville and appeared on Steve Allen's Tonight, as well as Fr. O'Conner's Boston TV show. In technique and jazz concept he is decisively separated from the other Harvard jazzmen, and steady work has allowed him to practice and progress...
...American Heritage, Rene Kuhn Bryant records Sibley's labors. His first volume, a record of "strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley...
First Enemies. The contributions of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 62, courtly Virginian, onetime shoe salesman, onetime investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), onetime Navy rear admiral (ordnance, naval research, atomic energy), were as basic as President Eisenhower said they were. In 1947, as a Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws) pushed through the nuclear-detection system that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended...
...time--anti-Semitism. Wang becomes perceptibly agitated when the subject is brought up. His disclaimers are pathetic and contradictory. For near the surface of his quarrel with modern America is the recurrent theme--"Communism is a Jewish movement. . . . Talmudic filth. . . . Ike Eisenhower, Max Rabb, Col. Kuhn, Felix Frank-furter are a bane and a plague on our people. . . . usurer...