The Boston Pops and its conductor for 50 years,Arthur Fiedler, had a lot to do with its popularity, according to John Williams, the Hollywood composer who followed in Fiedler's footsteps.
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At a minimum, it's hard to outgrown a library whose authors range from George Washington to Arthur Miller and John James Audubon to Kurt Vonnegut.
He has also spent a fair amount polishing H5's image: The firm's "advisory board" includes former Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller and John Seely Brown, onetime chief scientist at Xerox Corp.
Yet the ostentatiously ludicrous Mr West has undoubtedly helped to attract bright students to Harvard in the same way that the rather more serious Arthur Schlesinger and John Kenneth Galbraith once did.