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Four years before Boswell got his book to the printer. Hawkins published an authoritative biography of Dr. Johnson. Johnson's friends and Hawkins' enemies briskly went to work, and six months after the book was issued in 1787. it was torpedoed and sunk. It went out of print, and stayed that way until Bertram H. Davis, who has written his own study of Hawkins' life, edited the present, heavily abridged version...
Concerned that his designs on Cuban youth might make the increasingly bold opposition even bolder (last week the regime announced that it had foiled a plot to assassinate Castro by arresting a dozen suspects), the Maximum Leader hurriedly branded the decree a forgery, jailed 14 persons, including a Havana printer, on charges of circulating it. "An absurd invention," said Castro blandly on TV. "Who would dream of such madness?" But many Cubans remained unconvinced-considering the course that Castro sails. As Lenin himself once said: "Revolution is impossible as long as the family exists...
Classical Trend. Hershey Kay, 41, got into his present work largely to escape playing the cello. The son of a Philadelphia printer, he studied cello at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, played in various pit orchestras, began getting his first arranging commissions in the early '40s, by 1944 was working on Broadway productions. Although he thinks the trend is toward "classical orchestration," Kay does not necessarily follow the trend. "When I did Cakewalk," he says, "I became an expert on Negro music; with Western Symphony, an expert on cowboy music; and with Stars and Stripes a march-music king...
Still on the job is the CRIMSON'S chief printer, Art Hopkins, a veteran of many years...
Died. Silliman Evans Jr., 36, brisk, self-assured publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, which he took over from his late father at 30; of a heart attack; while cruising on Tennessee's Old Hickory lake. A printer's devil at eight and the Air Transport Command's youngest World War II pilot at 18, influential Democrat Evans backed Lyndon Johnson for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, was recently appointed to the Johnson-led President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity...