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Joan learned her techniques mostly by herself. Of Mexican-Irish parentage (her father is a physicist with UNESCO in Paris), she had scarcely sung until four years ago, when she took a few informal lessons while attending Boston University. She developed her repertory and style performing for Harvardmen, who flocked to a coffeehouse two blocks from Harvard Square to listen to every Baez syllable with furious concentration. Joan's response to commercial success was to turn down $100,000 worth of concert dates in a single year. "Folk music,'' says she. "depends on intent. If someone desires...
...Mary Ellen Babcock, a fleshy young thing who decides it's about time to do it, and is dismissed from Radcliffe for doing it over the week-end in a nearby motel. Mary Ellen we learn, suddenly matures, and spends her forced leave of absence in Paris, working for UNESCO. This sudden maturity represents one of the great miracles of our era, and it will be a long time before any reader forgets the courage and integrity of little Mary Ellen...
Among Nervi's most spectacular creations is the Turin Exhibition Hall, which features a 300-foot concrete shell that is only one-and-a-half inches thick. He is also the designer of the Olympic Sports Palace in Rome and is one of three designers of the UNESCO building in Paris...
Approximate returns for the six charities list WGBH first , followed by PBH, $2000; Scholarship Fund for Negro $1700; UNESCO, $1600; United World University Services...
...later became chairman of the American delegation to the London conference which in 1945 established the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO. At Harvard, MacLeish also served for a year as Acting Master of Eliot House and associated with undergraduates in Leverett House, where he has kept an apartment...