European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday october 4, 1967 highbrow Don t frown on lowbrow Washington up a highbrow of impeccable credentials monday defended the lowbrow s right to prefer the Beverly Hillbillies to oedipus  people should enjoy any Art for that gives them satisfaction without arguing whether they should be enjoy ing it proclaimed or. Harold Taylor former president of Sarah Lawrenc College president of the Ballet theater foundation and a trustee of the Ameri can National theater and Academy. His ringing defense of mass culture including such often deplored manifestations As television situation come Dies Western movies Rock a Roll music and Calendar Art was made in scholarly paper prepared for presenta Tion at the opening session of a National consultation sponsored by the american Institute of planners on the next fifty years the future environment of  the consultation will continue through Friday and will feature Long looks into the future by such luminaries As gun Nar Myrdal the swedish sociologist Robert m. Hutchins president of the enter for the study of democratic institutions Buckminster Fuller designer of the . Pavilion at expo 87 Kermit Gordon president of the Brookings institution civil rights theoretician Bay Ard Rustin agriculture Secretary or Ville Freeman theologian Joseph sit Tler and physicist Herman  consultation s announced purpose is to begin a nationwide discussion of the policies and programs we must con Sider if we. Intend to build a truly human environment in the1 next 50years." Taylor said no one has the slightest idea what lies ahead in the arts but he was emphatic in saying that no attempt should be made to dictate their direction according to the1 lights of those who Pride themselves on their Good  whether eggheads like it or not he said mass culture. Is obviously the culture of the future and is bound to create its own Art  he hazarded the guess that these for swill make current experiments in music painting sculpture and the theater look like a timid  instead of cringing before1 the decrees of self appointed taste makers he  should follow boldly and without apology the Creed implied inthe lowbrow s familiar declaration i Don t know anything about Art Buti know what i  he said the one planned contribution which future society can make to a healthy development of the arts is tonsure that children Are exposed to All of the arts As a Normal and regular Parton their school curriculum. Children enjoy the arts simply be cause they enjoy them just As athletes enjoy using their bodies he  said arts should be presented to children in school As a natural Way of learning to exercise one of the advantages of being  even whole limbs regrowth of part of body foreseen Washington a scientific advances May soon allow people to grow new fingers fee Tor whole limbs lost in accidents a University of Michigan Biolo Gist predicted monday. John r. Platt acting director of the University s mental health research Institute re ported this Prospect at the open ing session of a five Day Confer ence of the american Institute of planners. Platt said regeneration of human organs is suggested by recent experiments showing that it May be possible to take a cell nucleus from a developed animal and re implant it in a fertilized egg cell to produce a animal identical to the first. He said lobsters can Regener ate claws and vertebrates such As newts can regenerate Eye Sand optic nerves in a few weeks. He said Man s present inability to regenerate May be an evolutionary defense against the unwanted proliferation of cells that we Call  Platt also foresaw future dissemination of contraceptive drugs through treated food on general Sale at stores. This would greatly simplify the practice of contraception. Of course if such contraceptives were in general use any couple that really wanted Mohave p baby would have to go Down the Street and buy the untreated food from the other store " Platt said. The 65 prominent scientists educators and government officials attending the conference were told also to expect new humanist roles for technology handsome drastic changes in the Field of entertainment. This conference is the Institute s second Effort to probe the future. The transcript of a first conference last summer in port land ore., has been published33 a Book the environment of  use of technology to assault Man s ancient problems is fore cast in a paper written for the conference by Ralph g. H. Siu Deputy director of development for the . Army Materiel command. Sui envisions a Day when com Puter technology with its vast abilities to handle comple problems will allow big City planners to know not Only what City will look like when new but How it will change to meet the ebbs and flows of population and economic  Harold Taylor for Mer president of Sarah Law rence College and president of the Ballet theater foundation sees orchestras and operas out dated As Public  another paper presented to the meeting Taylor Calls the or Chestra quite possibly obsolete already except As a production unit for records tapes television and  the concert Hall it is now an expensive bureaucracy re Quiring hundreds of personnel and yet reaching a Small minor Ity of americans. Taylor asked Why not put everything on tape watch it at Home in full color on a three Wall full size screen which the television Industry promises touring to the people within five years or so Taylor sees the world s fair Asa future Art form where the audience is the spectacle an the spectacle is in a sense created by the fact of their  Charles Abrams chair Man of the division of Urban planning at Columbia univer sity Calls in another paper for a Federal Urban space Agency to acquire open land around big cities to assure its orderly growth. He proposes that the Agency put in roads schools sewers and landscaping then sell the land to private develop ers. Other scheduled conference participants include Claude Brown author of manchild inthe promised land agriculture Secretary Orville l. Free Man recreation commissioner August Heckscher of new Yor City and Robert m. Hutchins former president of the univer sity of Chicago and now presi Dent of the Center for the stud of democratic institutions Santa Barbara Calif. Space Workbench astronauts of the future May work fro this two listed platform shown in mock up form at the Bendix corp. Plant at Mishawaka ind. The vehicle would allow the astronaut to Range up to three Miles from his base to perform such diverse missions As Rescue of marooned space traveler Sand inspection or Assembly of structures in orbit. Up photo Singer in Low budget film Ray cries for More holes by Vernon Scott Hollywood up what Ever happened to the crying Singer Johnnie Ray that s the question every body asks me whatever happened to you " Ray said the other  be been touring the world playing every country this Sid of the Iron curtain. My agents and manager booked me out of the country so i was a Star almost everyplace but at  in 1953 when my records were big hits Idin t expect International recognition and at first i though the screaming teen a ers were fun and that i d never get 10minutes older. Now i know better. I Soen almost the entire year of 1965 in Spain doing nothing because was tired of working and trav Eling. I even began writing my autobiography just for some thing to do he  moved Back to Malibu Calif., last year and found the going Tough. Elvis Presley had come along. So had All the far out singing groups that Are currently the rage. Johnnie still plays an occasional nightclub to keep the Larder filled but he is aiming for a new career As a dramatic actor. His Tost movie was a Creaky old fashioned musical there s no business like show Busi Ness at 20th Century Fox in 1954. Now 13 years later replays a cop in a Low budget Paramount film rogue s Gal Lery starring Roger Smith. It Only amounted to a couple of Days work but Johnnie consid ers it a beginning. I got rid of All my manage Sand agents he said. I never wanted to be a Singer in the first place. I feel As if i m Start ing All Over again in  Ray is tall and slender an wears his Blond hair shaggy. His voice sounds the same but he has lost the baby faced qual Ity that once had teen agers squealing at the sight of him. Ray likes to think there is parallel Between his career and Frank Sinatra s. It was Frankie s Oscar winning supporting role in from Here to Eter nity that revived his waning career and brought him Backoo the top. Ray Hopes the same Light Ning will strike him. His last recording lonely wine. Was released three years ago while he was appear ing in Europe. It did t set off sky  be been away too Long he sighed. I Hope this new picture at Paramount will Lead to More movie roles. In fact i m counting on it but a lot of producers think of me strictly As a Singer. It s up to me to convince them i can do More than that. I tried to prepare myself for acting by working in bus Stop in a Stock company. It  european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in cd left. Col. F. 8. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnet managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry s. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed Force printed Dally at Darmstadt Germany under the auspices of the office of the chief of Public  Usa Keur. Military address the Star and stripes Apo 09175. International mall the Star and stripes poit Tach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. Tell Gale Shell c prefix 06155 20711 m Darmstadt a a strip prefix 2376 741. New York off cel 641 Washington Sfa new York 10014, Tell Art code 212 020-8771. Second cat postage paid at new York . The United states is an open society in which the people s right to know to cherished and  president Lyndon b. John soft