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Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...
...problems, a highroad critic of high-riding Joe McCarthy and a smiling sort who took defeat good-naturedly. The defeats: in 1952 for governor, by Walter Kohler. by 400,000 votes; in 1954 for governor, by Walter Kohler. by 35,000 votes; in 1956 for governor, by Vernon Thomson, by 59,000 votes...
...agreed they could run all the way, and what made the big difference was the presence of a freckle-fisted pro named Albert Schoendienst. When they got Red from the Giants last June (in a trade for Pitcher Ray Crone, Second Baseman Danny O'Connell and Outfielder Bobby Thomson), the Braves got the leader they had been lacking for so long -a man who could tell them how to play and make them listen. Switchhitter Schoendienst had been around the league for so long (eleven years with the Cardinals before he went to the Giants) that one Milwaukee sportswriter...
...wholly new idea, for the Brattle Theatre production here two summers ago was laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican Hat Dance...
Watching Aaron that night was a scout from the Milwaukee Braves who soon signed him up. Aaron went up through the Braves' farm system, in 1954 got his big chance when Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his ankle in spring training. Last year, lashing out at any bad pitch that caught his fancy, Aaron won the league batting championship with a .328 average, led both major leagues with 200 hits...