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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1955
Page
7
Paris reports Romanian composer conductor and violinist Georges Enesco aged 73 has died in the United States after a concert in 1946. The loss ends a long career marked by global performances and influence in classical music.
Washington report on organized labor planning a major political expansion after AFL CIO merger, aiming to influence state and national races. Meany says labor will push to protect bargaining power amid Taft Hartley limits and right to work laws, targeting key union strongholds like New York, California, and Illinois.
Fifty LHSer viewers watched Teen Town on TV last Saturday recording comments on dance space and activities. Winners Sharon Starr and Ron Kunkle received jazz records. Leis Yau Liew learned of a wiener roast. Aninette Wells celebrated a birthday. several students attended a late night party. School departments hosted open houses with fashion displays, cheerleader tryouts named leaders, and bank tours by government students. The piece ends noting ancient times marked by hangings as a note of historical context.
Lawrence High School Orchestra presents its second annual vesper concert Sunday at 4 pm in the ILHS auditorium conducted by Charles Kassinger. The program features LHS Piano Trio and Flute Quartet with members Judy Gorton Nancy Dixon and Denis Evans in the trio and Sandra Marding Janet Jackson Jolene Hardingan Irene Sample in the quartet. John Brown will play piano in Dream of Olwen by Williams, and the program includes Herod Overture by Hadley and Weinberger Czech Rhapsody. Both pieces earned A I ratings at the KU district festival last month. Admission is free and the public is invited.
State commissioner E B Mc Grew of the Amateur Softball Association will conduct a softball managers and umpires clinic at South Park at 2 p m Sunday May 22 Ralph B Emerson of Ottawa District Commissioner will assist. Team representatives and players from Ottawa Topeka Atchison Emporia are listed participants.
Wayne Bly, local director of the clinic, invites the public to a session as Kansas City and nearby communities are to be present. The event aims to inform residents about clinic services and opportunities. Community members are encouraged to attend.
Kansas University School of Fine Arts presents a faculty concert tonight in Strong Auditorium as part of the Kansas Fine Arts Festival. Performers include violinist Raymond Cerf, violinist and violist Karel Blans, cellist Raymond Stihl, pianist Roy Wanton Johnson, and clarinetist Raymond Zepp. They play Movart’s Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 478 and Schumann’s Piano Quartet Op. 47.
Austin Ledwith instructor music theory bassoon and Marian Jer sild assistant professor of piano will perform Trio path etique by Glinka. The concert features Ledwith and Jer sild in a chamber program highlighting wind and keyboard textures.
Paris reports the death of Louis Breguet age 75 a French aviation pioneer and contemporary of the Wright brothers He founded one of France’s first aviation companies and his plane designs saw service in World War I at St Germain en Laye France and abroad
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