The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books praised as satire
A reviewer details Hal Dresner's spoof The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books, praising its satire of obscene literature. The letters format follows Mason Clark Greer as a porn author facing a $100,000 defamation suit, with characters, plots, and a Vermont setting. The piece defends satire against censorship and mocks lewd trends.
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Hal Dresner
Simon and Schuster
Goldwater
Terry Southern
Mason Hoifenberg
Mason Clark Greer
Guy LaDouche
Scepter Publishing Company
Greer
Vermont
Dibbs
Hartley Young
Bibbsy Dibbs
FBI
Dresner
Berkshire Quartet Tours New Zealand
The Berkshire Quartet tours New Zealand under the Arts Council of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. They will perform 25 more concerts in New Zealand and Hawaii before returning to the University of Indiana where they have been quartet in residence for several years.
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Berkshire Quartet
Falls Village
Con
New Zealand
Arts Council
Hawaii
University of Indiana
Movie Timetable Shows Multiple Theaters and Times
Capitol offers Those Calloways at 1 00 3 30 6 00 8 35 along with Short subjects at 3 15 5 45 8 20. Palace runs Tami Show at 1 15 5 10 9 05 and Beach Party at 2 55 8 50. Union Square screens How To Murder Your Wife at 1 30 4 00 6 30 9 00 and Chagall at 1 00 3 30 6 00 8 30.
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Capitol
Union Square
Chagall
Donald Baker Returns Here in Triumph With Dallas Symphony
Donald R. Baker, 21, former Pittsfield boy now living in Conyers Georgia, returns to Pittsfield to perform as first oboe with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at a Community Concert on March 8 at Pittsfield High School. Baker signed with the Dallas Symphony last April and began playing in October. He earlier won the Musical Talent in Our Schools award on March 8, 1958, while a Pittsfield High sophomore.
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Donald Baker
Dallas Symphony
Pittsfield
North Junior High School
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Pittsfield High School
Donald R. Baker
Roy D. Baker
Conyers
Frances Burchard
Danforth Ave
Donald
Berkshire Athenaeum
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood
John Holmes
Boston Symphony
George Fulginiti
North
Holmes
Pittsfield High
Brigadoon
Life Symphony Orchestra
All-State
Oberlin College
DeVere Moore
Nice
France
Marcel Tabuteau
Philadelphia Symphony
Aspen
Colo
Harry Shutman
Berkshire
Fitisfield
Public Invited To Lecture by Dwight Macdonald
Williams College invites the public to an 8 p.m. lecture in Jesup Hall titled Confessions of a Literary Journalist by Dwight Macdonald the author editor and critic. The event is free, sponsored by the Williams Lecture Committee, with Macdonald noted for work at Fortune Partisan Review Politics and The New Yorker.
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Williamstown
Dwight Macdonald
Jesup Hall
Williams College
Williams
Chaucer
Beerbohm
Mr. Macdonald
Fortune
Partisan Review
Politics
The
New Yorker
Esquire
New York City
Exeter Academy
Yale
Wesleyan University
Brahms concert to aid burned churches scheduled Sunday
A benefit concert by the Pittsfield Chamber Music Society will feature Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52 plus works by other composers. The event Sunday at 8 30 p m at Temple Anshe Amunim aims to raise funds to purchase building materials for rebuilding burned churches in Mississippi. Local coordinators include Rabbi Harold I Salzman Rev Gary Barnes and Paul Nixon with assistance from area clergy. Performing singers are listed with a two piano accompaniment and a minimum $1 admission at the door.
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Brams Liebbeslieder
Pittsfield Chamber Music Society
Temple Anshe Amunim
Broad Street
Berkshire County Fund
Committee of Concern
Mississippi
Lawrence A. Caesar
Harold I. Salzman
Temple Anshe Amumim
Gary Barnes
South Congreational Church
Paul Nixon
Pine Grove Drive
Brahms
Anthonia Calapas
Marjorie Ann Kember
Ruth Rice
Elizabeth Mihovan
Howard Fohrhaltz
E. Whitney Blackstone
Richard Bauer
My. Nixon
Helen N. Morgan
Harry Rubinstein
Free Concert by Netherlands Chamber Choir in Williams College
The 18 member Netherlands Chamber Choir presents a program of choral works from the 16th to 20th centuries at Chapin Hall Williams College tonight at 8 30. The event by Thompson Concert Committee is free and open to the public during their U S tour begun in January.
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Williamstown
Netherlands
Chapin Hall
Williams College
Thompson Concert Committee
Joaquin Des Pres
Victoria
Lassus
Debussy
Felix de Nobel
New York Times
Toronto Globe and Mail
Bridge bidding and play mishaps lead to three down
An East West auction and subsequent diamond and heart swings unfold with ruffs and discards. South aims for discards then ruffs, but the defense prevails as West and East counter moves yield a three down result. Proper play would have altered the outcome with different ruffing and refusing supports.
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East
South
West
Bid One No Trump After Partner Opens With One Heart
Bridge bidding analysis explains South should pass two clubs and avoid two spades. The correct response with Spades 86 Hearts 85 Diamonds Q87543 Clubs Ad is one no trump, signaling a useful but not strong long suit.
Barbershoppers Win Second in Saratoga Contest
The Berkshire Hillsmen directed by Noel Sears placed second in the Division 2 barbershop chorus competition at Saratoga Springs New York and qualified to represent the division at the Northeastern District contest in Providence next November. The New Yorkers of Poughkeepsie won, current district champions, to represent the district at the international finals in Boston in June. Other choruses chosen include Saratoga Springs and Albany. The district winners advance to Chicago in June 1966. The Chord Ringers quartet won the division novice quartet championship, led by Bob Rose and featuring Mike Joyce Don Packard and Si Eulian, and will sponsor the district quarter elimination contest in May.
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Berkshire Hillsmen
Noel
Sears
Saratoga Springs
N.Y
Providence
Poughkeepsie
Boston
Albany
Chicago
Pittsfield
Chord Ringers
Bob Rose
Mike Joyce
Don Packard
Si Eulian
N Y Paramount Plans Reopening With Top Stars
New York Paramount Theater to resume live entertainment beginning April 16 after leasing to Morris Levy. The 38 year old Times Square venue will feature jazz folk popular and country acts seven days a week and is negotiating with stars including Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Count Basie and Peter Paul and Mary.
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New York
Paramount Theater
Times Square
Webb & Knapp
Morris Levy
Levy
Paramount
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin
Count Basie
Peter, Paul and Mary
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Slim Pickens
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