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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Gov. Haley Barbour, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is a prohibitive favorite against wealthy trial lawyer JohnArthur Eaves Jr. (D), whose father sought the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in the 1975, '79 and '87 primaries.
He was one of the earliest patrons of the American modernists John Marin and Arthur Dove, and he bought the late work of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) in depth after World War II, a period when it was dismissed as emptily decorative.