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Army forces in Europe, and told him that with a little attention the Seventh Army's mediocre orchestra could be an excellent one. The result: 26 new men were transferred to fill out the orchestra, and last spring a new conductor, Sergeant Kenneth Schermerhorn, was chosen...
Bird Sanctuary. The average age of the symphony's 65 players is 22. Conductor Schermerhorn himself is a fairly typical member of the orchestra: he is 24, comes from Schenectady, studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and Tanglewood, has played trumpet in Boston and Kansas City orchestras...
...wear the uniform properly," and except for their own tubas, trumpets and trombones they hear few commanding tones from the brass. In return, the experiment has more than paid off in prestige and honor for the U.S. occupation forces. "We're expected to produce good music," says Conductor Schermerhorn confidently...
...last week Jack Schermerhorn, a police reporter on the Detroit Free Press, hustled from the police station to the office. He was looking for Malcolm Wallace Bingay, Free Press editorial director, and he was going to give him a thrashing. Schermerhorn had just read Bingay's new book, Of Me I Sing (Bobbs-Merrill; $3.50),.and he didn't like what Bingay had written about his father and his uncle (James Schermerhorn, once editor of the Detroit Times). Sample: "I have never met a more precise and perfect example of a hypocrite...
...took Managing Editor Dale Stafford to keep young (26) Schermerhorn from taking a punch at 64-year-old Newsman Bingay. More than one Detroit newsman wished Stafford had not bothered. Big (205 lbs.) Malcolm ("Bing") Bingay is one of Michigan's best known citizens, but hardly one of its best loved. His autobiography is a revealing self-portrait of an editorial egocentric who made good...