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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Particularly effective is Holbrook's timing. He takes time out to light a fresh cigar, flick some ashes off, or just blow smoke into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

Another proposal is to set up a core program in the Department. There is, in fact, almost one already. Ec. 141--Money and Banking, Ec. 161--Industrial Organization, and Ec. 181--Industrial Relations, cover the major areas of the field and at least two of them are necessary to handle...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Economics: Undergraduate Program Undergoes Extensive Re-Evaluation | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

One proposal, approved by nearly all and sorely needed, is to introduce a greater flexibility into the program through increased use of half-year courses. Presently over half of the seventeen courses offered run from September to June. Many of these, it is admitted, could be pared down to a...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Economics: Undergraduate Program Undergoes Extensive Re-Evaluation | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

It is probably this fact that makes Hal Holbrooks "Mark Twain Tonight" a particularly noteworthy show. Besides presenting Twain's genuine humor ("I'm all abstinence. . . so long as it doesn't do anyone any harm,") Holbrook doesn't hesitate to show the "darker" side of Twain, ranging from a...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

Holbrook looks like Twain, or at least like the picture one sees of Twain these days. He even talks and walks like one would expect Twain to walk and talk, and produces a very convincing portrayal of a vigorous old man. He acts some stories out, wanders from rostrum to...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

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