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Crew-cut Jerry Brauer, 34, officially became the youngest head of a U.S. theological faculty last week. It was fitting that it should be at the University of Chicago, where young leadership is a tradition (William Rainey Harper was 35 when he became first president of the new university, ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins took over at 30). As he moved in as the new boss of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty, Midwesterner Brauer (from Fond du Lac, Wis.) immediately announced completion of a detailed 16-point program to revolutionize the seminary...
...lacerated joys and sunny sorrows of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Chippie Hill survive only in the grooves of phono graph records, but their way with a song has been a lesson to every singer right down to Rosemary Clooney and Eartha Kitt. Lizzie is surviving handsomely, in person. Her voice has a brazen ring and a driving spirit; if she sings a bit flat here and there, she is always steady on the beat. Above all, she brings an au hentic echo of a past jazz age that the youngsters in her audience never knew and the oldtimers tearfully...
...Philadelphia, Dr. Froelich G. Rainey of CBS's What in the World, an archaeological quiz game, is both stunned and pleased by his public notice: "You get recognition from anybody and everybody. The other day a train conductor punched my ticket and then said, 'I know you- you're that fellow on TV.' It's always a surprise for a college professor to get any recognition...
Between the birth of the blues and their popular acceptance, there existed a classification called "race records." These contained music by and for Negroes, and for a quarter-century they were the only record outlets for such blues singers as the late Bessie Smith. Ma Rainey, et al. After the war, the offensive tag was changed to "rhythm and blues," but the contents remained the same, some of it root-primitive, most of it strongly rhythmical in the jazz vein...
...Resort. Though the big boom is recent. Americans have always been self-improvers. In the 1830s they flocked to Lyceums; later, they went to the Chautauqua: still later, they attacked the five-foot shelf. Meanwhile, the professional educators took on the adult population themselves. In 1890 President-elect William Rainey Harper of the University of Chicago proclaimed it the duty of every university to "provide instruction for those who, for social or economic reasons, cannot attend its classrooms." In 1904, the New York City Department of Education declared the school to be not only "a nursery for children." but also...