Word: richard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tapes of the prizewinning Moscow performance, and 60 pages of research on life with Van Cliburn. Meantime, correspondents in the U.S. and Western Europe talked to the people who had been close to Van: his parents, his teachers, his childhood friends, his musical associates. In Manhattan, Music Editor Richard Murphy and Researcher Rosemarie Tauris (whose husband is a conductor) interviewed musicians, managers, Juilliard teachers and friends. For Dick Murphy's story about the music sensation of the year, see Music, The All-American Virtuoso...
...Heard of Vice President Richard Nixon's stoning by agitators in Peru (see THE HEMISPHERE), commented admiringly: "Dick's got a lot of guts." Later, Ike dictated a warm personal message, which Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter relayed by radiophone as Nixon's party flew from Peru to Ecuador...
...last night's Student Council meeting, Council President Marc E. Leland '59 read a letter from PBH president Richard E. Rubenstein '59 stating that PBH would be too busy with other activities to coordinate the drive. At Leland's suggestion, vice president Paul E. Freehling '59 moved that the Council run the drive, and that the President appoint a chairman for the campaign. The motion carried unanimously...
...Advocate's April issue contains one poem which is not merely an experiment, but is also a poem-for-readers. Richard Sommer's "Three Legends for Fishes" is the finished product of a competent craftsman, and makes the rest of the issue seem unusually amateurish. Although "Legends" would not deserve the American Academy Poetry Prize which Sommer has won in his second year of graduate school, the poem nevertheless shows a consideration for the reader which is conspicuously absent from the work of most younger writers, including the other three contributors to this issue...
Undergraduate lettermen recently elected George H. Higgenbottom '59, of Leverett House and Belmont, president of the Harvard Varsity Club. Richard M. Reilly '59, of Leverett House and Chestnut Hill, was named treasurer, and Mark Hoffman Jr., '59 of Adams House and Oxford, Miss., was elected secretary...