Word: barbee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All Things to All Men. At 33 he took his first lessons in Latin with a group of schoolboys, then moved on to Paris, center of European scholarship, to attend the College Saint-Barbe. There he gathered about him six of the most brilliant men, one of them Francis Xavier...
Would Texans listen to three hours of classical music every night? Charles Barbe, a former symphony conductor turned highbrow disk jockey, thought they would. But, he recalls, "every advertising agency in town told us we were chumps." Finally, the owner of Houston's station KXYZ-FM, Oilman Glenn McCarthy...
A Hoosier-born Princeton man, Barbe conducted at Milan's La Scala when he was 19; after he came home from World War II he conducted the Portland (Ore.) Symphony for three years. Today 44-year-old Barbe broadcasts his programs from a $40,000 studio built into his...