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Victor L. Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, and G. Wallace Woodworth, James Edward Ditson professor of Music, will speak at Radcliffe's 80th Commencement exercises...
...Aviv, symphony orchestras were tuning up for concerts to celebrate his birthday. Recordings of the old man's music were at full flood, and the British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky was his own best celebrator. In Toronto last week he shuffled to the podium, looking owlishly like Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and conducted the CBC Symphony in some of the best music to flow...
...Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An 80th birthday salute for Igor Stravinsky from the Philharmonic, with Leonard Bernstein conducting an all-Stravinsky program...
FROM Moscow last week came an outpouring of praise for a former President of the U.S.: on the 80th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's birth, both Pravda and Izvestia ran memorial articles hailing F.D.R. as the champion of Soviet-American understanding and cooperation. Khrushchev dispatched a warm message to Roosevelt's widow, praising F.D.R. for "his efforts on behalf of Soviet-American friendship." A Russian delegation appeared at Hyde Park to lay a wreath on F.D.R.'s grave, and Nina Khrushchev joined U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and 250 Russians at a Moscow memorial ceremony dominated...
...bathroom, and assorted Cabinet members popped in to use it-forcing Romagna to hide behind another door. In 1948, on tour with Harry Truman. Romagna transcribed more than 300 of Truman's 536 campaign speeches, missing only an occasional word: when Truman sneered at leaders of the Republican 80th Congress as "mossbacks," Romagna. who had never heard the expression, wrote it down "moth bags...