Word: malcolm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MALCOLM D. RIVKIN...
...Malcolm Holmes never worries about what to do with his spare time. He directs band medleys in Soldiers Field and plays the violin in a string quartet. He is dean of one of the country's leading music conservatories, and conductor of several amateur and semi-professional orchestras. He has recently written a book on conducting amateur musical groups, and he spent part of the summer leading the Boston Pops Orchestra. Through all these various activities he manages to retain a jolly disposition, disturbed only occasionally by a Glockenspiel or an enemy football manager...
...director of the orchestra of the New England Conservatory, as author, and as frequent chamber music participant, Holmes has had to cut down his activity at Harvard. He is no longer active leader of the University Orchestra. But wherever good ensemble music is heard between Symphony Hall and Wellesley, Malcolm Holmes is likely to have a leading part...
Early in 1949 Britain's able Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, brought the federation's hostile racial leaders together in a Communities' Liaison Council. On the council was the influential head of the United Malay National Organization, spruce, bespectacled, British-educated Dato Onn bin Jafaar, 54, once a violent baiter of Chinese. Several months of round-table parleys, plus the mounting Communist threat, converted Dato Onn. He publicly proclaimed: "Malays must accept as full nationals those of other races who are prepared to give their all to the country...
...Brown bear learned something Saturday: "It doesn't pay to fool around with Malcolm Holmes...