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Especially excited about the new scheduling and its impact on the "Boston Now" exhibition are Don and Jeanne Stanton, avid collectors of contemporary art, and co-chairmen of The Friends of Boston Art, the group which sponsors the ICA's "Boston Now" exhibition. "One of the reasons our group exists," says Don Stanton, "is to guarantee that the ICA has a commitment to get behind Boston artists. The ICA has had an absolutely terrific year, and really seems on the verge of doing something special...
Even though Longfellow Hall overflowed with avid listeners yesterday, Monday, and Wednesday, Welty preferred to deliver her talks from the smaller lecture room because of the intimacy she could develop with her listeners...
Some of Pepper's most avid fans even urge him to run for President. He clearly considers himself just as physically fit as, and more capable than, the present occupant of the Oval Office. Claims Pepper about 1984: "I'll be better able to throw my hat in the ring at 83 than Ronald Reagan will be at 73." In less quixotic moments, Pepper admits that he is, at best, suited to the No. 2 spot. "It's easy to replace a Vice President," he says, in a rare recognition of his own mortality...
...avid baseball fan, Fickett went to the Red Sox's spring training in Winterhaven, Fla, every year. Jeremy Halbreich '74, business manager in 1973, said yesterday...
...avid player of charades and spinner of tales, young "Peter" (as he was called by everyone in the family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that...