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...more than 3? a composition. In the modern-music field, 10,000 copies mean a rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern composers on disks: Bartok...
...Wake Forest, N.C., at the last commencement of Southern Baptist Wake Forest College before it moves to a brand-new campus at Winston-Salem, N.C., retiring Language Professor Hubert Mc-Neill Poteat told the graduating class that "we have in our Baptist ranks more than our share of bigots. Moreover, they have always had, and now have, their scouts and sleuths and spies on this campus, armed with little notebooks in which they diligently scribble comments on the utterances of their professors, that they may presently pass them on to our self-appointed Baptist Popes, cardinals and bishops...
Lausche, who has been politely mentioned as a presidential possibility by such powerful Southern Democrats as Georgia's Richard Russell and Arkansas' John Mc-Clellan, turned his thoughts only momentarily toward Paul Butler. "My strength," explained the five-term governor, as if to the inexperienced and the young, "has been that no one has been able to dictate to me-bankers on down to labor leaders, strip miners, truckers, the utilities and the whole raft of them...
Accountant Robert John Edwin Mc-Kerrow's undeniable skill with figures had brought him some doubtful rewards, among them a number of convictions for forgery and embezzlement. But a good talent is hard to suppress, and when British-born McKerrow was sentenced to 4½ years in Kampala's Luzira Prison for juggling an employer's books to the tune of $14,000, he was promptly assigned to take care of the prison accounts...
...applying for a job as an accountant in England. Last week he was reluctantly forced to write his prospective employers to tell them that he might be delayed in reporting for duty. A shortage of $1.400 in the prison books and a considerable cache of money found in Mc-Kerrow's cell led to an investigation, a trial, and the sentencing of Robert John Edwin McKerrow to 18 months more at "hard" labor...