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Chester E. Finn '65, Director of the Roosevelt Towers Program, emphasized the tentative nature of the new direction. His committee, he said, is now deciding whether to institute these programs...
...enthusiasm of Edgar Kaufmann Jr., a Pittsburgh department-store magnate's son, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright and talked his father into building Wright's famous over-the-waterfall house at Bear Run, Pa. Kaufmann, who has an equal enthusiasm for Aalto, offered the Finn a commission to create a reception and conference room of his own for the I.I.E...
Possibly, in Alamo, Calif, (pop. 2,300), Lawyer George Finn didn't watch the World Series on TV. When he signed a lease for a client who was renting a home to St. Louis Cardinal Curt Flood, 26, it came as a shock to Finn that Flood was a Negro. Such a shock, in fact, that he snatched the key, threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block...
...anti-Semite in which the Jew turns out to be as much persecutor as victim. This first succes d'estime was followed by the book that made Bellow a popular success as well: The Adventures of Augie March, a picaresque tale of a Jewish Huck Finn who bounces about the U.S. and Mexico sampling and quickly tiring of all manner of jobs, creeds and persons. But Augie sacrificed the dramatic tension of The Victim and rambled. Bellow's sub sequent novel, Henderson the Rain King, rambled even more; and in Herzog the tension has snapped completely...
Best & Worst. One work that so far has been denied posterity is Weill's Huckleberry Finn, a "folk opera" that the composer and his neighbor, Playwright Maxwell Anderson, were working on in New City, N.Y., when Weill died of a heart attack at the age of 50. The five songs Weill completed for Huckleberry were locked away and all but forgotten for 14 years. Finally, Lys Symonette, Weill's former secretary and rehearsal pianist, and Broadway Conductor Milton Rosenstock resurrected the musical remains of Huckleberry, with the idea of molding it into a half-hour TV show. Several...