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Hiring a private plane and an electric organ, Mike crosshatched the state, 'hammering at Elmer. In little towns, he would leave his car overtime by a parking meter, then identify himself and pay the fine ("Always good for a box on Page One," explained Mike). He used the "Brannan Plan" as an epithet, never let farmers forget that Thomas had sponsored it. He reminded Oklahoma's 100,000 rural voters, who get electricity from REA lines, that Thomas has opposed federal-built dams to provide cheap power. Thomas, he declared, is a "messenger" for private utilities...
...Izvestia, the Communist house organ which has often belabored him for "groveling before the West," Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich obligingly picked his own "rogue's gallery of warmongers": Novelists John (Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck and oldtime Socialist
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...
...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...