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Sadakichi Hartmann, onetime "King of Greenwich Village," announced from his desert-edge shack in California that he was writing "what likely will be my last opus." Son of a German father and Japanese mother, hard-playing Eccentric Hartmann was once a crony of Walt Whitman, spent most of his life writing art brochures and unplayable plays. Now 72, he described his final opus: "Theme: 1,000 happy moments in a lifetime-where can they be found-four New World Orders analyzed-which one is your choice...
...Army searchlight battery set up living quarters in the animation building of Walt Disney's studio (adjoining the Lockheed Aircraft plant), flirted with pretty girls from the inking & painting division at lunchtime...
...Star-Spangled Banner, published last week, bore those words on the cover. The words and music were by a sometime modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians' union...
...Varsity swimmers had originally planed to make the trip south with Coach Ulen to the national aquatic school held annually at Fort Lauderdale. Those who had counted on making the proposed excursion were John Eusden, Tony Myrer, Don Harting, Bob Sceery, Walt Downing, and Dave Barnes...
Original drawing by Walt Disney form the collection of the Boston Art Club and Grace Horne Galleries are now on sale and exhibition in the Dunster Common Room under the auspices of Dunster House with proceeds going to Phillips Brooks House...