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Lloyd Nolan Stroudsburg, Pa...
...came to Boston, so we thought we would come over and have a tour," says Marguerite Smith of Greeley, Col.Mrs.Seth Fisher of Villanova, Pa., agrees that Harvard is an obligatory part of a tour of Boston. Her companion, Diane Myers of Medford, N. J., adds that "Harvard is very historical...
...early test, conducted at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, showed or purported to show that "functional music" in a workplace reduced absenteeism by 88% and early departures by 53%. Other tests produced even richer results. When The Blue Danube was piped into a dairy in McKeesport, Pa., the cows gave more milk; recordings inspired chickens to lay more eggs. The coming of World War II made this more than a matter of money: thousands of U.S. factories, arsenals and shipyards were wired for music and increased production by as much...
Rembert George Weakland, 57, chairman of the bishops' committee on the U.S. economy, had an early personal experience with poverty. His father, a hotelkeeper in Patton, Pa., died in 1932, when Weakland was five. His mother, who had five other children, scratched by on welfare for years un til she was able to go back to work as a schoolteacher. "To this day," Weakland says, "I can't look at brown corduroy knickers without getting sick, because if you wore those WPA clothes everybody knew you were on welfare...
...teenager, Weakland was torn between two vocations. After making a creditable soloist's debut, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with a local orchestra, he considered a musical career. Instead, he became a Benedictine monk at St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., in 1945. Nonetheless, he kept up his music, earning a master's degree in piano at New York City's Juilliard School and doing doctoral-level work in musicology at Columbia University. He also transcribed medieval works into modern notation for the Play of Daniel, a heralded music-drama introduced...