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...vivant, Herriot was for 52 years mayor of Lyon, five times minister, and three times Premier of France. An inveterate joiner (some 300 organizations), Herriot was so outraged by the Russian rape of Hungary that he resigned from the Franco-Soviet Friendship Society-and when he asked the name of the society's president, to address his resignation to, he discovered it was himself...
Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...
...Sound of Music-with Richard Rodgers supplying the music, Oscar Hammerstein the lyrics, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse the libretto, and with Mary Martin as the star-provides "What's in a name?" with at least one answer: "A $2,325,000 advance sale.'' The show itself, in accordance with Rodgers and Hammerstein's desire not to repeat themselves, goes to Austria at the time of the Anschluss for its story, to the famous Trapp Family Singers, who dramatically escaped from the Nazis' clutches. Besides Captain Georg von Trapp, there were his seven children...
Born. To Air Force Lieut. General William E. Hall, 52, Commanding General, Continental Air Command, and Marguerite ("Maggie") Higgins Hall, 39, Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune: a second child, first daughter; in Washington. Name: Linda Marguerite. Weight...
Sullivan confirmed yesterday the group's plan for use of the Stadium if the tax-exempt status of the land is threatened by rental to a professional organization. His group, he said, would try to contribute a large amount in the University's name to the United Fund or a similar charity and use the Stadium without charge...