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After a one-term warm-up of informal activity, the Society for Industrial Democracy set up shop on a regular basis Tuesday night, with final approval of a constitution and the election of Thomas R. Brooks '50 as president...
After an evening of warm-up speeches, they went into closed session in the Willard Hotel's Congressional Room. When they emerged they had a name (Americans for Democratic Action), a bankroll ($9,-300), and a 25-man organizing committee, loaded with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson...
...contrast to grim, nervous, precise, self-conscious U.S. broadcasts was amazing-and somehow delightful. From the relaxed, indifferent air of audience and performers, it seemed as if a broadcast warm-up was in progress. But the Music Hall was on the air-an hour and a half of singing, acting and comedy, almost completely...
After two dozen secret nominating sessions, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) finally agreed on a man for the top job. Their choice: Dr. Julian Sorell Huxley, 59, lean, wiry and brilliant British biologist who ran UNESCO in its warm-up stages...
...contract for the first U.S. appearance of Eva Prchlikova, a sensational young Czech soprano. An Army captain in Frankfurt who had heard her sing told Krueger about her, arranged a quick audition in an empty Army mess hall. She sang for two hours, scorned warm-up and launched confidently into the "Queen of the Night," Mozart's test-piece from The Magic Flute.* Krueger signed her on the spot...