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Named to the Eastern selection committee were John Kelley of Boston College, chairman; Walter J. (Duke) Nelson of Middlebury, and J. Murray Murdoch of Yale. Alternates are Harry Cleverly of Boston University, William Harrison of Clarkson and Richard Vaughan of Princeton...
...Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8 (Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli; Mercury). A sweeping, full-throated song, written with far more springtime power and heat than might be expected from an 83-year-old, but in a harmonic idiom that suits his age. Barbirolli's orchestra matches Williams' enthusiasm note for note, dyne...
...pals that Harry Truman gathered around him in the White House were among the headliners in the Truman Administration scandals. Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's ever-present sidekick, began as early as 1945, helping a perfume manufacturer get around wartime travel restrictions to Europe and receiving, for his trouble, a deep freezer. Also on the deep-freezer list was White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly-convicted only this year of tax fraud conspiracy during his White House days. In 1947 Truman denounced grain speculators for driving prices higher, soon discovered that his personal physician, Brigadier General Wallace...
...famed five-percenter investigation, the big names were those of Influence Peddler James Hunt and Harry Vaughan. Hunt won fees from business firms on the strength of his claims that he could land Government contracts for them through his friendship with Vaughan and other Administration officials. Harry Vaughan virtuously denied all wrongdoing, claimed that the deep freezer had been just an "expression of friendship...
Moving on to Washington at week's end to lash out at Dwight D. Eisenhower and hole up for consultations with Old Crony Harry Vaughan, Truman got to talking about his place in the Democratic campaign. "I've told 'em not to send me any place where I could do them any harm," he said. New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Representative T. James Tumulty thought he knew just the place. "Send him," he telegraphed Adlai Stevenson, "on a slow boat to China...