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...LABEL: SMITHSONIAN COLLECTION OF RECORDINGS...
...album is produced by -- can this be right? -- the Smithsonian Institution? Aren't they the earnest scholars who compile hours of field hollers and other historic folk music? Yes, but in 1971 the Smithsonian began moving gradually into mainstream pop and jazz, first by mail order and, since last fall, in retail record stores. Because it is a nonprofit entity, commercial labels grant it the rights to their classic and vintage tracks. These plus the private collections unearthed by the Smithsonian make for unequaled quality and comprehensiveness...
...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will showcase several new projects and a new book series this spring break, according to officials from the center...
...results were often superb -- or at least the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington thinks so. At an exhibition running through May 17, the nation's official depository of portraits is showing 36 TIME covers of men and women who played key roles in the Second World War. "TIME Covers the War: Personalities from World War II" spans the period from Jan. 3, 1938, when General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek of China were on the cover, to May 21, 1945, when Japan's Emperor Hirohito was rendered as the divine "Son of Heaven." Also included: Joseph Stalin...
...wise-use movement" to fight what they see as the extremism of those who put wilderness protection and the rights of endangered animals before the welfare of humans. "There seems to be a coalescing of different economic interests to fight the green devils," observes environmentalist Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution...