Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During this same period the Adams House activity began, and a student emcee, Tom Wilson, conducted several popular Sunday afternoon sessions. Tom now works with Transition Records, and voices complete optimism over the future of jazz at Harvard. He feels the receptions given Dorfman, Kuhn, and the HNJS concerts adequately reveal how high jazz interest runs on campus; and he envisions Harvard as a thriving jazz center after a few years of jazz-education. "It's important to introduce jazz to the student...
...Wilson is not alone in a feeling that Harvard should and will take the lead in any new movement having a certain intellectual character. "The West Coast experiments give modern jazz an intellectual aura, and this should rivet the Ivy Leaguer to the idea of jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...
From the back of an envelope, Dean Bundy attempted to tell the newcomers what the Summer School should be like. Speaking from notes on the back of a small folder, he used Woodrow Wilson's definition of a University atmosphere: "What students talk about when they are not engaged in academic pursuits." Mere residence could not associate anyone with Harvard: "You have to make it yours," he told them. "It does not come...
...house on Manhattan's unprepossessing West 103rd Street, Mrs. Fred Townley answered the telephone, gave up a small chunk of hard-won anonymity. Married for 25 years to a law-trained businessman, Miss America of 1922 and 1923-the only double winner of the contest-told Gossipist Earl Wilson that she was less than keen about a free trip to this year's rite at Atlantic City (see SHOW BUSINESS). Explained the former Mary Campbell: "I got so tired of the publicity I didn't ever want to hear about Miss America again." Pressed for her life...
Corsets & Buggy Whips. Like Curtice and Wilson, Donner was born in a small Midwestern town. His father was accountant for the only plant-a featherbone factory making corsets and buggy whips-in tiny (pop. 1,500) Three Oaks, Mich. Donner went regularly to the Congregational Sunday School, shied from athletics, read voraciously, mostly history. His life was orderly. Remembered a childhood friend last week: "He had a routine even as a boy. So much time for work, so much for play and so much for study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained...