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...happen to be in prison. So three years ago, Ira Distenfield, a 26-year-old stockbroker who has studied criminology, began teaching investment courses to inmates of the Stateville Prison in Joliet, Ill., and Chicago's Cook County Jail. Since then, Distenfield has become the convicts' Pied Piper of legitimate gain. Inmates and prison officials at 23 institutions around the country, including such fortresses as San Quentin, have asked Distenfield to teach similar courses about the stock market...
...aware, of course, that for better or worse we are in an era where he who pays the Piper no longer calls the tune. But our black militant Pipers are really men of little character, for their militancy lacks a sense of equity. I doubt that the black community can expect any viable contributions from such militants, for underlying their amnesty request is something disturbingly and profoundly immediate. Martin Kilson Professor of Government...
...University of Indiana's opera department compares with some of its rivals the way a 747 jet compares with Piper Cubs. Since 1948 the school has produced 107 operas. It gives a performance every week, has five bands, four orchestras, a ballet company and an ambition that overreaches many professional companies. To all that, Indiana has now added an $11.3 million musical arts center. What better way to show off the new 1,460-seat theater than to put on an opera written by a faculty member? To wit: Heracles, Composer John Eaton's 3½-hour treatment...
Ruby Keeler may have once gone out there a nobody but yesterday she came back a star as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals named her their 21st woman of the year, alongside such other show biz luminaries as Gertrude Lawrence, Katherine Hepburn, Mamie Eisenhower and Piper Laurie...
...Pied Piper...