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...ideal pops concert is played in a park, and its program is as light and harmless as a passing cloud-Gershwin, Sousa, Leroy Anderson. This follows the old axiom that serious music, like aged whisky, should be saved for cold winter nights.* But the music that Conductor Andre Kostelanetz chose to open the New York Philharmonic "Promenades" series last week had real substance-Shostakovich, Ravel, Alan Hovhaness...
Drawing Flies. Anything less than a roar would sound inadequate coming from a man who stands six feet tall, scales 240 lbs. and sometimes has to go sideways through a door. Waldron roars at everybody. Once, when Leroy Collins was still governor, Collins stamped up and down the cabinet room for four hours demanding that Reporter Waldron disclose his source for a certain story. For four hours, Waldron stamped right along with the governor, roaring refusal. Then the governor gave up trying...
Chief criticism has come from some broadcasters and distillery executives, who feel that freer advertising would provoke the Prohibitionists. The broadcasters, however, freely advertise beer and wine, which, when used immoderately, can be just as overpowering as whisky. Last week NAB President LeRoy Collins strongly urged WQXR to reconsider, said that its position could "break down the gates." But Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler congratulated the station for "wiping away the hypocrisy...
...heard a minute on the late Arthur Darby Nock, who was Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, delivered by Zeph Stewart, Professor of Greek and Latin. A minute on the late V.O. Key, who was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, was delivered by Merie Fainsod, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Political Sciences...
Dean Ford announced earlier this week that Fainsod has been named Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow...