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...Critical evaluation ranged from cool ("about 30% art, 70% commercial gloss") to enthusiastic ("at all times vital and alive"), and it seemed certain that Kenton would establish attendance records on his 35-concert tour of the British Isles. Under an agreement between the two unions, top British Bandleader Ted Heath will reciprocate with a tour of the U.S. next month...
Today, Boston's seven publishing houses--Little, Brown; Houghton Mifflin; Ginn; Beacon Press; D. C. Heath; Atlantic Monthly Books; and Allyn and Bacon--bear little resemblance to their ancestral forebears. The monotype and the large commercial enterprise have supplanted moveable type and the hand craftsman. Where once a printer set every individual letter, made a separate impression for each page, and bound them all under a fine leather cover, now machines handle almost every phase of the printing process...
Having produced a work of craftsmanship, the educational publisher becomes a powerful force in moulding outlook of a child. One series of books prepared by Ginn, D. C. Heath, or the somewhat smaller Allyn and Bacon can follow a child through as many as nine years of his education...
...poetry in Audience's first two issues comes from established poets like Richard Wilbur, John Heath-Stubbs, John Holmes, and David Ferry. The most notable of these poems, Wilbur's Looking Into History, displays the same grace and care that characterized his work at Harvard. Although most of the other poems do not meet Wilbut's high standard, there is much that will reward the careful reader. While Audience's assumption that controversy implies awareness is, perhaps, debatable, it is strengthened by both he poetry and the criticism that have appeared in the first two issues...
Like many a fresh young officer before and since, Hale longed for battle but saw very little action. His regiment was moved from Massachusetts to Manhattan just before the British took Long Island. General Washington, anxious for information about the plans and strength of the enemy, asked General William Heath to establish a "channel of information" behind the British lines. Hale, by now a captain, volunteered for the job. "I am fully sensible of the consequences of discovery and capture in such a situation," he told Captain William Hull, a classmate at Yale and a fellow officer. "I wish...