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Nadia Boulanger, former pupil of the French composer, has directed the festival, which will feature Faure's later and least-known works. Miss Boulanger was the teacher of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Walter H. Piston, Jr. '24, professor of Music...
...bustling, red-haired Mrs. Clarence Norton ("Gussy") Goodwin, a Washington socialite, organized a session of Spanish classes for friends in her Shoreham Hotel apartment. The teacher: a suave, rumba-dancing bachelor, Senor Ramon Ramos. When Bess Truman left to become First Lady, Gussy's class lost a star pupil...
Died. Newell Converse Wyeth, 62, onetime star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed...
Selma Burke, a Negro sculptress and onetime pupil of France's Aristide Maillol, won a nationwide competition to design the plaque. Said she, explaining the less-than-speaking likeness: "I had to make up my mind to show . . . three or four things which I felt he meant to me and millions of others: strength, determination, and that look of going-forwardness...
...Pupil Roy Flynn's check from Farrar & Rinehart was for The Changeling, the young (26) man's first novel and winner of the $1,000 Stephen Vincent Benét Scholarship; it was scheduled for publication next spring, and was the 14th novel accepted from a Strode student...