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Among the most fervent saviors of the Saugatuck is bushy-headed Composer Edwin Gerschefski, who lives with his wife at Meriden, Conn., hard by the threatened river. Broadcast last week on Conductor Howard Barlow's CBS "Everybody's Music" program was Composer Gerschefski's contribution to the great Connecticut cause: a "Save the Saugatuck" Symphony. Subtitles of the flashily orchestrated symphony's four rather noisy movements: 1) Natural Ruggedness; 2) Robot Controlled Precision without Escape; 3) Natural Flow; 4) Dynamite Accomplished Perversion and Artificiality of Every Description...
...Turkey, Powerhouse, War Dance for Wooden Indians, etc.). His music, whose deliberate jazz style is so sophisticated that it seems almost a caricature of jazz, has attracted the attention of such musical bigwigs as Igor Stravinsky. Last week Bandleader Paul Whiteman devoted the best part of his CBS broadcast to Scott's dry, sharp-rhythmed music...
...dinner in Belfast given for him by the Queen's University Students' Union, Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, new director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Aug. 1), ordered that none of the speeches, including his own, be broadcast...
When it was announced three weeks ago that Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's contract to broadcast for General Foods would not be renewed for the last quarter of the year, all parties to the agreement were unanimous in denying that Boake Carter's unpopularity with labor and the Government had anything to do with the failure to renew. Last week, when Newscaster Carter made his last broadcast for Post Toasties and Huskies, Announcer Erik Rolf repeated the official explanation-that it had been impossible to buy desirable time on the fall network schedules (TIME...
...when Newscaster Carter took the microphone for his final broadcast, he devoted his time to reading aloud, from Philosopher John Stuart Mill's essay Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion, excerpts relating to the evils of violating freedom of speech and the press. At the close of the broadcast, Commentator Carter turned from Philosopher Mill, said: "It is indeed, as the makers of Huskies and Post Toasties have said, as Erik Rolf so ably put it, it is considerably a matter of inability to find convenient time to meet the desires of General Foods that brings this series...