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...Capitol Hill, the dramatic Eisenhower proposal was received with mixed feelings. A few hours before the President advanced the plan in Geneva, Assistant Secretary of State Thruston B. Morton trotted up to the Capitol with the President's précis of the proposal to brief the Senate's leaders. At the end of his message, the President asked for support in the form of "comment." At first, Republican leaders were silent. Then 19 G.O.P...
...many professional newsmen, write an occasional article, or hold regular jobs while they try to free-lance on the side. But the successful full-time free-lancer who depends only on the articles he sells to magazines is a rare breed. "Since the decline of the oldtime prospector," says Morton Sontheimer, past president of the 91-member Society of Magazine Writers, "few people have worked with less companionship, few have had to rely more on their own resources." For the top writers magazines compete fiercely. Satevepost pays a new writer $750 for his first piece, then jumps in steps...
...Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...JAMES I. MORTON...
With his orchestra well in hand, Katims schedules everything from Brahms to Morton Gould, interests all sorts of listeners. This season, for the first time, the orchestra's eight-concert subscription series was a complete sellout (2,600 subscribers), Katims also expanded a series of $1-admission concerts in the suburbs (where he sometimes gets a local businessman to take the baton for the concluding number), and so excited one old music lover that she offered a $150,000 apartment building toward a new hall. Next year's budget will be jumped from...