Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely has time even to read the letters he gets, or smile at the way they are addressed. Last week he was collecting 14,000 volumes for Austin's Samuel Huston College (for Negroes), which, he heard, was about to lose its accredited standing for lack of a big enough library. And when that job is done Henry Dunn plans to do something about Korea. "You know," says he, "in this country there are enough books to educate the whole world...
...18th Century repertory, but the quartet has found some listeners eager for modern cacophonies and "deeper stuff," adds a smattering here & there of late Beethoven, Bartok and Schoenberg. Four U.S. composers whose music has been added to the repertory this year: Lukas Foss, Quincy Porter, Walter Piston and Samuel Barber. Television? Not yet, says Spokesman Schneider. "Why would people want to sit in the living room and see only four men sitting on chairs pulling bows? But gradually TV will take the place of radio. People will not want to be without chamber music. It is sure to come...
...Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of American History at Harvard, has been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral (retired) in the United States Navy, it was announced recently...
Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, 64, who left Harvard to enter the war as a reservist lieutenant commander, was placed on the retired list as a rear admiral. Morison's plans: to keep right on writing his comprehensive History of United States Naval Operations in World...
Hear Yee, Hear Yee. In San Francisco, Telephone Operator Marie Yee, represented by Attorney Samuel E. Yee (no kin), won a divorce from John Yee on testimony of her sister Rosemary Yee and got court permission to resume her maiden name: Marie...