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...American Friends of the Middle East, a notoriously anti Israel organization. I infer it is for that reason that no representative of Israel is to appear in the panel on the Near East and its problems, which is dominated by representatives of the Arab states.... Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities...
Fred Donner is one of the best paid men in U.S. industry (1959 compensation: $670,350), but his pleasures are comparatively simple. He lives with his wife (his two children are married) in a 22-room home in Sands Point, L.I. that once belonged to Producer George Abbott, keeps a Fifth Avenue apartment to be nearer his work in busy periods. He drinks moderately (Scotch, martinis), is also a wine connoisseur, does not smoke...
Tenderloin (Book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; based on Samuel Hopkins Adams' novel) is the work of the same team that turned out Fiorello! Like Fiorello!, Tenderloin is a period musical whose scene is New York and whose subject is reform. Unlike Fiorello!, this yarn of a clergyman of the '90s crusading against Manhattan's vast red-light district and colliding with its venal police force proves pretty heavy going. The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy...
...show has its palpable good points -for a starter, George Abbott's direction. When the scarlet ladies, decked out by Cecil Beaton with inspired bad taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...
Speakers at the dinner will include President Pusey and James Finney Baxter III '14, first Master of Adams, during whose tenure President Abbott Lawrence Lowell restored the building for its present use as the Adams Master's residence...