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...lower-level Humanities courses which will bring most of the Great Man of the English department to the General Education podium, and a new upper level Soc Sci given by Alexander Gerschenkron, Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics, will caliven next year's Gen Ed offerings...
Died. Joseph Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Lass & Lash. The weirdest tale of all was told by Vickie Barrett, one of the few performers who made no bones about being a prostitute. Drab, docile Vickie (nee Janet Barker) testified that Ward had picked her up one night and taken her back to his apartment to have intercourse with a man who was wait ing naked in the bedroom. In all, said the prosecution, Vickie had some 30 assignations in Ward's apartment but never saw any proceeds; the osteopath pocketed the money, said she, on the pretext of saving...
Under perfect water and wind conditions on Sunday afternoon, Jim Perry, winner of last year's North Americans, jumped 132 feet twice to take the crown for a second year. For the first time in his skiing career, Jim Barker broke the "century" mark with leaps of 111 and 110 feet to win the second place title...
...author of The Man with the Golden Arm seems determined to prove that it was written by a man with brass lungs and a tin ear. Who Lost an American? sounds like a bellowing recitative by a carnival barker who stops at nothing but to laugh at his own jokes. It takes Algren to foreign parts like New York, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Istanbul, Crete, and back, of course, to dear old untouchable Chicago. Through it all, Algren (complaining about Americans who complain about the lack of ham and eggs for breakfast) remains about the most militantly ham-and-eggs American...