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...Amidst dramatic productions by the HDC, Drumbeats and Song, and other College groups, yesterday's announcement of a new course in playwrighting spotlights an important development at the University. Along with the Drama Club's recent decision to enter television and the unprecedented naming of two Spenser lecturers on Drama for this spring, the course represents something University people have been waiting for since 1923: A full-scale revival of interest in the Theatre at Harvard...
...sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed within a definite time, ending armies, navies, and air forces, conscription and the manufacture of conventional and unconventional weapons, is the only disarmament that requires minimum external control. It would solve the dilemma of firepower versus manpower...
...France at a Manhattan pier, France's retiring Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, 66, whose charm and Gallic wit have entranced Washington for the past nine years, and Mme. Bonnet, a fixture on lists of the world's best-dressed women, were seen off for home amidst the popping of champagne corks. Just before sailing time, Diplomat Bonnet got a sisterly farewell kiss from a longtime family friend, glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich. Said he feelingly to his well-wishers: "I thank you for the happiest years in our lives...
...Amidst the tumult and the shouting moved "Honest Ave," like a well-dressed icicle, thin and sharp and distant. In his Mercury he drove from his Manhattan town house to the sprawling, old Executive Mansion in Albany, emerging for a dinner attended by a distinguished gathering of Democrats. Among the guests: Margaret Truman, former Air Secretary Thomas Finletter, two of President Roosevelt's old intimates and speechwriters, ex-Judge Samuel Rosenman and Playwright Robert Sherwood, and William Blair, aide to and ambassador from Adlai Stevenson...
David C. (for Curtis) Stephenson, 62, onetime Grand Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, who used to regard the state as his own feudal barony, won his freedom from the state parole board. He had spent nearly three decades in prison, where he languished amidst delusions of persecution and grandeur, for committing one of the most sensational sadistic murders of the '20s. In 1925, he forced a state government clerk named Madge Oberholtzer to board a train with him and, while his bodyguards stood by, brutally ravished her in a lower berth. After they...