Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JERRY MASON Teheran, Iran...
Growing up in small-town Mason City, Iowa, Composer-Author-Lyricist Meredith Willson tootled his flute in the local band, watched the trotters at the county fair, pumped water for Saturday-night baths, was taught to beware of anyone who smoked cigarettes, especially tailor-mades. "Innocent-that was the adjective for Iowa," says Willson. "I didn't have to make anything up for The Music Man. All I had to do was remember...
Behind his Harold Lloyd glasses, Willson still looks much like the round-eyed boy wonder who packed up his flute at twelve and left Mason City for New York and a career as a versatile but erratic musician. At 19 he was good enough to play with John Philip Sousa, at 22 was playing under Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic. In 1929 he defected to radio, for the next two decades whipped up foamy musical souffles and sprightly chatter for such shows as Maxwell House Coffee Time, The Big Show. Along the way, he tried his hand at anything...
...best disks have majesty and force enough to lift the listener from his chair. Centuries of reading aloud have not yet dimmed the Elizabethan magnificence of the great King James Bible passages, and James Mason brings sonority and good sense to his declamation of Ecclesiastes (Caedmon), making the nameless narrator sound as contemporary as an existentialist in Paris, as ancient as a Pharisee. The sound track of the movie Oedipus Rex (Caedmon, 2 LPs), starring Douglas Campbell and Canada's Shakespearean Festival Players, transports listeners inside the towering walls of seven-gated Thebes for the bloody working...
...Dean Mason was the final speaker of the International Development Society's fall lecture series on "Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age." He spoke on "Economic Aid as an Instrument of Foreign Policy." Dean Mason recently returned from a six-month tour of South and Southeast Asia...