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Other U.S. colleges are making similar experiments. On the Georgian campus of Maryville College, Tenn., a streamlined Fine Arts Center is going up, with organ practice rooms, a broadcasting station and a lawn-terraced amphitheater. The University of Arkansas is getting a Fine Arts Center that will have everything from glass-walled galleries to a theater whose seats and stage can be changed at will from proscenium to theater-in-the-round...
...shops have been communalized. Although this economic concentration in the hands of the government is capable of generating great power, Communists are finding that compared with the selective precision of private enterprise, nationalized enterprise on such a scale is often a blunt instrument. Thus Rude Pravo, central Communist Party organ, complained recently that so many sieves were being delivered to ironmongers that every family in the country would have had to buy one weekly for a year to get rid of them...
...week presented one of the most exciting plays ever shown on U.S. television. It was a tense, deceptively simple dramatization of Shirley Jackson's disturbing New Yorker short story, The Lottery. Crowding the TV screen with dramatic close-ups and using music scored for an unusual orchestra of organ and musical saw, Cameo took its audience into an isolated village of uncertain time and place to witness the celebration of an annual rite and its grim ending: the communal stoning-to-death of a luckless citizen...
Shenanigans in Cleveland. Gordon Jenkins first tried to give Americans the kind of music they wanted in 1920, when he was a skinny ten-year-old, spelling his father at the organ in a Chicago theater. He quit high school to play in a St. Louis speakeasy, wheeling his battered piano from table to table, collecting $40 to $60 a week in tips from enthusiastic bootleg-whisky drinkers. Later he got a job at a St. Louis radio station, singing, playing the organ, piano and accordion to fill in the morning hours before the regular staff straggled...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, told the CRIMSON last night, "These decisions are fine. They are another indication that the Supremen Court is really doing more for race relations than any other organ of the government...