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Both Doherty and Bulger expressed grave concern over the existence of schools in Massachusetts which have been granted charters by the state but which have "met no standards of educational decency, and offer nothing more than a scrap of paper which they call 'degree.'" Doherty singled out Boston's Avon University as a "fraud and deceit," and maintained that the real intention of the bills was to alleviate the conditions caused by such institutions...
...among the contemporary greats, ranking him with Olivier and Gielgud. No one who has seen A Man for All Seasons will quibble for a moment. The son of a schoolmaster, Scofield learned his actor's trade as a member of the Birmingham Repertory, played Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon and a brilliant roster of contemporary roles on the London stage. In one of his rare appearances outside the United Kingdom, he was mobbed six years ago by Moscow fans who admired his Hamlet. He has a wild shock of dark, grey-flecked hair and a face that seems...
Died. Hilda Doolittle, 75, Pennsylvania-born expatriate poet (Sea Garden, By Avon River), whose carefully chiseled lyric verse, signed "H.D.," represented the high-water mark of the imagist movement that before World War I broke away from formalized poetry into "words that make images"; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland. Sample image...
...Avon-Chalmar; M-S-M)isafallen woman (Susan Hayward) who pulls herself up from bawdyhouse to governor's mansion by her garter straps. One election year in Louisiana, she entertains a cotton-pickin', git-tar-strummin' candidate for Governor (Dean Martin), who so deeply appreciates her "campaign contribution" that he asks her to marry him. She does, and when he wins in November the scarlet woman suddenly becomes the first lady...
...Honeymoon Machine (Avon; MGM) is the Hollywood machine in a rare moment of felicitous clank, turning out the slick, quick, funny film for which it was designed. Among the astonishingly lifelike moving parts are: Steve McQueen, a sailor (sailors are dependably hilarious); Jack Mullaney, a sailor and a Southerner (Southerners used to be hilarious); and Jim Hutton. a missile scientist (scientists never were very funny, but Hutton is also a man in love, and thus hilarious). The three of them decide to become wealthy at a Venice casino, using as their good-luck talisman a ship-based, missile-tracking electronic...