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Married. Edward ("Kookie") Byrnes, 28, jive-talking junior shamus of TV's 77 Sunset Strip; and Alabama-born Cinema Starlet Asa Maynor, 24; at Beverly Hills' All Saints' Episcopal Church, with Sunset Strip Colleagues Roger Smith and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as best man and usher...
...wore tuxedoes and lit their cigarettes with Zippo lighters, careful not to burn their Edwardian sideburns. Caesonia (Caligula's mistress) appeared in several very Roman costumes, one modern evening gown, and one outfit that would not have been out of place in the chorus line of the Copacabana. Asa Gates designed those costumes which were not rented from a tuxedo agency. There is no set designer listed on the program, which may acount for the sets...
Concerned by widespread corruption in the government bureaucracy, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi had wanted a free, two-party vote. With the Shah's encouragement, his close boyhood friend, Asa-dollah Alam, had taken to the stump at the head of a loyal opposition called the People's Party, which denounced corruption and urged land reform. At this point, the Shah retired to his six palaces and his pregnant third wife, Farah Diba, whom he counts on to produce a male heir in late October. But while the Shah relaxed, pro-Nationalist landowners herded their villagers to the polls...
...spite of this cloudy past, the Harvard Summer School, the oldest in the nation, with 1960 making the 85th consecrative session. Professor Asa Gray started vacation sessions in 1872. For a six-week period, he gave special instruction in Botany, a successful experiment repeated following year by Professor Louis Agassiz. Other members of the Lawrence Scientific School--now part the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--later offered courses in Chemistry and Geology for their private benefit. Thus the Summer School was born, quietly, unnoticed by his historians or by the outside world...
...prophets sized correctly in 1888, when it wrote. "The summer courses are certain the increase in number, and to grow in interest every year." History does show the success of the nation's older Summer School--even if no one can recall the beginnings. Since its humble origins in Asa Gray's lectures, vacation education has been widely copied and justly admired