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...brilliant re-creator of Mark Twain as a septuagenarian platform lecturer is 34-year-old Hal Holbrook making his New York stage debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...
...first troubles to arise from the fascination that College students have for flames and firefighting occurred during the controversial term of President Increase Mather in the late 1600's. An avid theologian, he burned a book on New England witchcraft at a public ceremony in the College Yard. Thus, it was a College President who started the custom of mass conflagrations in the Yard...
...their digging. Mexican authorities became conscious of their ancient heritage, prohibited the export of valuable art. Result: a new spurt in excavations and the rise of smuggling. As more exotic relics appeared in the U.S.. such art buffs as Nelson Rockefeller, John Huston, Charles Laughton became avid collectors and paid top prices...
Throughout a busy life, the lady has never lost her avid interest in Radcliffe, which she calls "a school for leaders." The college presented her with a citation on its seventy-fifth anniversary. Later, her twenty grandchildren collected money and gave a room to the graduate center in her name. At the moment, Mrs. Cannon hopes other interested people will add to her own donation for a Mexican Room in the graduate center. "We should have a room from every country," she suggests. "I chose Mexico because I am so interested...
...bigger things. Some of them even come back. Such Italian film and television celebrities as Mike Buongiorno, Vittorio Gassmann and Marisa del Frate pose willingly for fumetti scripts, draw as much as $20,000 for a single series-which, shot in weeks, will be doled out to an avid public for months...