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Alan D. Bersin, of Kirkland House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; William A. Fletcher, of Kirkland House and Seattle, Wash.; Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. of Leverett House and Atlanta, Ga.; Frederick N. Ris of Eliot House and Denver, Colo.; David A Samuels, of Eliot House and Hollywood, Fla.; and Thomas S. Williamson Jr., of Kirkland House and Piedmont, Calif., are recipients of the scholarship...
...executives at Wheeling Steel Corp. suspect that President Robert M. Mor ris is really a set of triplets masquerading as one businessman, much of the blame - or credit - for such a notion belongs to Executive Jet Aviation...
...That refrain, hope fully, will be echoed elsewhere when the company strikes out next week in four buses and five 40-ft. vans to tour 70 cities. The christening in Indianapolis was symbolic. "We felt very strongly," explains Risë Stevens, who with Michael Manuel is co-manager of the troupe, "that if we were going to be a national company, we should start right in the center of the country...
...German Pianist Hans Richter-Hasser (who argued that artists should be above involving themselves in social problems), but the boycott was gathering momentum. Conductors George Szell, Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf all announced that they would not appear before segregated audiences, and they were joined by such performers as Risë Stevens, Leon Fleisher, Jaime Laredo and Julius Katchen. Artur Rubinstein declared that such a stand is "a right and natural step...
...sing a song worth sixpence in the opera world of the 1930s, an American girl like Risë Stevens had to go to Europe for training, and she has always regarded that as a crying shame. Now the mezzo-soprano, 50, will have a chance to do something about it. She and Metropolitan Opera Executive Stage Manager Michael Manuel have been named general managers of the Met's new National Company, which will start touring the country full time in the fall of 1965. "We have a tremendous wealth of talent in this country, and for the first time...