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Stringfellow ("the most practical thing to do now is weep") and Campbell ("it is too late to establish harmonious relationships between the races") were but two of about 15 scheduled speakers in the four days of the meeting. Their pessimism was so far from being the dominant note that Mr. Stringfellow was loudly controverted in the auditorium and widely denounced in the corridors, while Mr. Campbell, so far as I could see, was ignored...
Died. Otto Harbach, 89, courtly dean of U.S. librettists, who authored more than 1,000 songs for Broadway musicals; after a long illness; in Manhattan. As a student at Knox College, Ill., his way with words once made William Jennings Bryan weep, and as a successful Manhattan adman he coined such slogans as "Built, Not Stuffed" for Ostermoor mattresses. Tin Pan Alley did not hear his first song until he was in his mid-30s, but then in 1908 he wrote "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine," and during the next 30 years teamed up with Vincent Youmans, Sigmund...
...reached such a pitch that "in our generation white children will be marched into gas chambers by dark-skinned masters, clutching their little toys to their breasts in. Auschwitz fashion." In the same mood, Episcopal Layman William Stringfellow gloomed that "the most practical thing to do now is weep...
...Richter's earlier style had at first deterred critics from such bold appraisals. For years he was known beyond the Soviet bloc only in legends that told of a pianistic Paul Bunyan who played 120 concerts a year, every one of them good enough to make Beethoven weep. When he appeared at last-46 years old and bald-his mastery of the Russian technique was so impressive that he made its vices into astonishing virtues...
...small) audience to hear Mrs. Filo do the rest of her numbers with a piano, bass and drums trio. She concluded the brilliant first set with "an imitation of Eartha Kitt singing I Want to Be Bad" which was all Filo--no Kitt. And her versions later of Willow Weep for Me and the too-little-known Something Cool demonstrated what I think is her most impressive gift: she has an astonishing stylistic range, big as Ethel Merman one minute, gentle as Chris Connors the next...