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Ranged against Doloris Bridges are New" Hampshire's two Congressmen, Perkins Bass and Chester Merrow, and Maurice Murphy Jr., who is serving out Styles's Senate term under appointment by Governor Wesley Powell. "Mo" Murphy, 34,' an amiable fellow, is also considered a "Bridges Republican," but he stands to the southpaw side of Doloris (he favors financial aid to the U.N., she is against it). He argues that the voters ought to keep him in Washington because he is so young and he already has a few months' Senate seniority. Merrow, after 20 years...
...Doctor? Of the four candidates, the one that Murphy, Merrow, and even Doloris will have to beat is Perkins Bass. The Bass name is almost as big as Bridges' in New Hampshire Republican politics. Bass's grandfather helped manage Lincoln's second presidential campaign, was a pallbearer at Lincoln's funeral; his father was a New Hampshire Governor. In Bridges' terms, Perkins Bass is a liberal-he even supports a modified version of Kennedy's foreign trade program. "I feel very strongly," says he, "that Senator Murphy and Mrs. Bridges represent the point...
...Yard Punch this Wednesday from 3 to 4:30 p.m., there will be a jazz improvisation group. The group will be headed by Tom Kierenon on trumpet; on piana is Alan Perlman; on drums is Phil Manfredi; there will also be a bass player...
...opening chorale-prelude, "Wachet auf," was the first I have ever heard taken at a sufficiently fast tempo. With most players, it sounds more like taps than reveille. The only trouble was that the pedal stop had pipes that were rather slow-speaking; at this tempo, therefore, the bass line tended to lag perceptibly behind the upper ones...
...piled under tables, filed away in secretaries, and hang from curtain rods and moldings. Mrs. Hutchins tests her newly devised instruments in a basement lab full of measuring equipment that she mastered only after several years of electronics study. The biggest of her new in struments, the large bass, and the small est, the treble, are still causing trouble. It would take a seven-foot man to play the large bass unless she can somehow alter its proportions while retaining the tone; only a midget could play the treble. "At the moment," says Mrs. Hutchins, "we're up against...