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...play its title--doubly inexcusable since the text of the play is, except for The Comedy of Errors, the shortest in the entire canon. The second is the lack-luster playing of the king and his companions (save Richard Waring's well-spoken Antonio), of whom Loring Smith's Alonzo and O. Z. Whitehead's Sebastian are embarrassingly inept. Still, the show is a striking success for William Ball in his directorial debut for the Festival...
...school's 49-member board. Millionaire Ezra Cornell, a onetime carpenter who helped put together Western Union Telegraph, launched the land-grant college by giving it $500,000 and his 300-acre farm in Ithaca, N.Y. And so Cornell's Trustees Cornell have followed Ezra: his son Alonzo, who was also a Governor of New York (1880-1882); his grandson Charles Ezra, a lawyer; Great Grandson William Bouck, a mechanical engineer; Great-Great Grandson William Ezra, a drug company executive...
Notified by Yale University that he is the school's oldest living graduate, football's Grand Old (97) Man Amos Alonzo Stagg (Yale '88) mulled over the matter for a moment, then wired back to New Haven: "Thanks for your good telegram telling me of the distinction which has befallen me. I shall try to behave myself for the rest of my days so that dear old Yale will not suffer...
Help from A.A. Du Font's model assault on the bottle problem was detailed by its assistant medical director, Dr. C. Anthony D'Alonzo, in The Drinking Problem (Gulf Publishing; $2.95). The company first looks for certain giveaway signs: "Frequent absenteeism (characteristically on Monday); a gradual and appreciable drop in efficiency; a change in general appearance and dress habits; frequent disappearances from work." Next, Du Pont medics approach the alcoholic sympathetically, tell him that the company views his alcohol problem as an illness, not unlike heart disease. The company then sends the drinker to its own psychiatrists...
Only when the drinker refuses treatment or returns to steady elbow-bending is he fired. "An employer who frequently threatens termination, but does not follow through, furthers the alcoholic's continued drinking," Dr. D'Alonzo believes. "Sometimes this act [of firing] is the trigger that suddenly brings the alcoholic to his senses...