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...York-born Drew Middleton, 32, goes to Russia with few illusions. He regards the Moscow assignment as "something every reporter should do once at least." He has agreed to buck it for the next two years...
...German romanticist Robert Schumann, Juilliard's new president is New York-born, taught music for ten years at Sarah Lawrence College. Since 1938, when Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra played Schuman's Second Symphony, he has been one of the most consistently performed of contemporary composers. His most popular scores: the American Festival Overture, Fourth Symphony. Schuman still composes for three hours a day in the basement of his home before he goes off to school at noon...
Died. Albert Curtis Brown, 78, New York-born literary agent who founded Curtis Brown, Ltd. in London in 1899, developed it into an international sales agency for works of celebrated writers (Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw*); after long illness; in Whitney Point...
This year, after a 20-year separation, Sir Thomas divorced his first wife, the former Utica Welles (New York-born descendant of Connecticut's fourth Governor Thomas Welles). They have two sons, Adrian, 38, and Thomas, 33, both at present with the British Armed Forces. Sir Thomas has five elderly sisters, whom he describes as "very agreeable creatures," all living in England and married to "husbands who all do exactly what they want them to do-I don't know whether it's a family attribute, or just luck...
...York-born Lewis Mumford is no intellectual opportunist. He was long a disciple of the late Sir Patrick Geddes, the sociologist-biologist-philosopher who gave him his enthusiasm for sound city planning. A self-styled "basic communist," Mumford disapproved of Marxists but writhed when he was called a "liberal." A man of parts, he wrote excellent architectural criticism for The New Yorker, lectured at Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard, got himself denounced as "a sublimated recruiting officer" when he called for a U.S. break with Germany, Italy and Japan...