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Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sinfonia Antartica. Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra (Angel; LP only). Many of Ralph Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies evoke a specific place or mood, among them the choral "Sea" Symphony, the matchless "London" Symphony and the gentle "Pastoral" Symphony. Others, like the exquisite Fifth Symphony, quote from the British composer's other works (in this case, the opera The Pilgrim's Progress). His Seventh Symphony, the "Antartica," does both. It began as music for the 1948 movie Scott of the Antarctic, and a few years later was transformed into a five-movement work. However suspect its origins...
...Theater, the Harlem home of funk and soul and rock 'n' roll, where many of the glittering lineup got their start. Diana Ross was there, having helicoptered in after two shows in Atlantic City. So were Smokey Robinson and Little Richard and Wilson Pickett, the Four Tops and Sarah Vaughan and Sammy Davis Jr. And dozens upon dozens of others. Joining in the homage were such white performers as Rod Stewart and Boy George. It seemed a once-in-a-lifetime concert, in aid of a venerated place...
...first actual disciplining took place in Los Angeles, where Catholic welfare officials were instructed to cease referring anyone to a shelter for the homeless run by Signer Judith Vaughan...
Most Administrations have been plagued by ethical breakdowns of varying seriousness. Harry Truman's military aide, General Harry Vaughan, accepted a freezer from a manufacturer and survived the uproar. Dwight Eisenhower fired his chief of staff, Sherman Adams, for giving Government favors to an industrialist and taking a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug from him. Jimmy Carter defended his Budget Director and crony, Bert Lance, until Lance quit under charges that he had permitted relatives to overdraw their accounts in a bank he had headed. And then, of course, there were Richard Nixon's Watergate...