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...same way he brought buildings, Sacher set out to buy a faculty. He had to. Given the philosophy of starting at the top, the faculty was the sine qua non. He succeded in getting men like the late Ludwig Lewisohn, Leonard Bernstein '39, A.H. Maslow, Max Lerner, Irving Gifford Fine '37, Herbert Marcuse, and Frank Manuel...
Died. Ludwig Lewisohn, 72, German-born author (Upstream, Goethe: The Story of a Man), translator (works of Rilke, Werfel), Zionist, professor of comparative literature at Brandeis University since 1948; in Miami Beach...
...dancing girls or waters, but dozens have "graduated from the Sunday band-concert stage to more ambitious musicmaking. Cities with major symphony orchestras try to find pleasant outside work for the musicians during the summer months. Philadelphia seats them in Robin Hood Dell (June 21-July 28), Manhattan in Lewisohn Stadium (June 20-July 30), Boston on the Esplanade overlooking the Charles River (July 5-Aug 20), Chicago in suburban Ravinia Park, Los Angeles in spectacular Hollywood Bowl...
...major concepts in the social and natural sciences. Though their classwork was done mostly in seminars, they heard lectures by such scholars as Anthropologist Carleton Coon, City Planner Lewis Mumford, Yale's Henri Peyre (who spoke on Rousseau's Confessions), Brandeis University's Ludwig Lewisohn (Faust), Colby's President Julius Seelye Bixler ("Empirical Calculation of Consequences"), and Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm ("Psychology and Ethics"). They visited the U.N., the museums of Washington, Philadelphia and New York; they attended a Quaker meeting, heard concerts by the Philadelphia Orchestra...
Died. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, 59, educational leader; in an automobile crash (half an hour after Adlai Stevenson, whom she had given a lift, had left the car); near Shenandoah, N.Y. A trustee of Vassar and one of the founders of Bennington College, wealthy Margaret Lewisohn, was chairman of the board of trustees of the Public Education Association...