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George Frazier, '33, record critic for Mademoiselle ("The Magazine for Smart Young Women" who can't think farther than the next week-end party), has the following to say about Charlie Barnet: "I happen to think that Barnet's records are uniformly stinking. . . I can't tolerate Barnet because he and the music he sponsors are doing irreparable injury to the cause of reputable, heartfelt jazz." This is all based on the fact that Charlie Barnet "has had the colossal bad taste to ape the one inimitable band around today and the result is something cheap and disgusting." Needless...
...Pedro Henriquez-Urena, distinguished South American poet and critic, will begin his series of free, public lectures, as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, tomorrow night, speaking on the topic "The Discovery of the New World by the Imagination of Europe," in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, at 8:15 o'clock...
...Henriquez-Urena is widely known as a poet, literary critic, teacher, and public official. He is a leading authority on Spanish verse, and an outstanding interpreter of Spanish America to the outside world. He has been a high public education official in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico...
...lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
...warehouse this week, just 17 months since its run ended, came Stage with a new cast, new sets, new management. President of the company is a rich Manhattan socialite, William Rhinelander Stewart. Publisher is a shrewd, energetic Hungarian editor and impresario, Alexander Ince. Managing editor: Alexander King, onetime drama critic, illustrator, onetime member of LIFE'S staff...