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...home again in 1946, determined to be a composer. He played the piano in local joints and studied with France's famed Darius Milhaud at Mills College. Teacher Milhaud filled him with counterpoint and polytonality, fired him with the conviction that improvisation of jazz was as valid for him as the improvisation of toccatas and fugues was for Bach. "He told me," says Dave, "if I didn't stick to jazz, I'd be working out of my own field and not taking advantage of my American heritage." Searching Dave Brubeck found a goal: to show that...
...Eisenhower's campaign line is not valid," McCloskey agreed. "A Democratic Congress will not affect the working arrangement with him at all." He called the public vs. private power dispute the only major divergence between the two parties...
...first taste of trouble came with an announcement of Communist fiscal policy. The only currency valid in the Northern zone was to be Communist Ho Chi Minh's piasters, a printed currency that had no value before Geneva. The Communists arbitrarily based it on the price of rice, 230 piasters for two pounds of grain. But since rice prices fluctuate wildly from area to area and from season to season, the currency would depend on the crop, thus make it impossible for any Northern businessmen to set up a solid business. Imports would be next to impossible...
...stage in March, 1953, when a spokesman for the Un-American Activities Committee called Glasser a "serious malefactor," and he was ordered to testify before the committee in Washington. Several months previously the Rutgers board of trustees had adopted its policy of regarding use of the Fifth Amendment as valid cause for dismissal, so that Glasser went before the committee with the knowledge that refusal to testify would almost certainly prejudice his position in the University...
Republican John Marshall Butler of Maryland signed without stipulation. Then Brewster called on Dirksen, raged at him and recalled their old Senate friendship. Said Dirksen: "Oh, well, okay, I'll sign." He insisted, however, that his signature would not be valid unless three specified Democrats, John McClellan of Arkansas, Stuart Symington of Missouri and Henry Jackson of Washington, also signed. Charles Potter, Michigan Republican, signed with the stipulation ,that three Democrats-any three Democrats-would have to sign before his signature was valid...