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...first musical in Dramatic Club history will be produced this spring through the aid of an anonymous outside backer, Neil B. Smith '55, the producer, announced yesterday. The show, entitled "Almost Anyone," will open at the Peabody Theater in Boston April...
...details for the show have been completed, Smith said. Yesterday he received Dean Watson's approval on the financial arrangement with the unnamed backer. Smith had feared an outside financial guarantee might endanger the University's tax status. Casting and rehearsals start next week...
...Election of the week: Charles H. Silver, 66, Manhattan's tireless toastmaster and backer of good causes, by his fellow board members, as New York City's president of the Board of Education. Born in Rumania, Silver was brought to Manhattan's East Side slums before he was three, at 15 went to work as an office boy at the" American Woolen Co. for $2.50 a week, rose to become vice president at more than $100,000 a year. A man who has been known to raise as much as $2,000,000 at a single banquet...
...driving and affable ex-publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and chairman of Robinson-Hannagan Associates, which handles Coke's public relations. Bill Robinson, an old friend and golfing companion of Woodruff's, knows his way around in politics as well as business. An early Eisenhower backer, he introduced Ike to the Augusta National Golf Club, helped convince Ike that he could win the nomination and election, is now a frequent bridge and dinner guest at the White House. Coca-Cola picked him for his skill as a merchandiser, will pay him a salary upwards...
...Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing. But agile as Mendès-France is, his enemies are still confident that...