Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming a newsworthy month in Communist Russia. It was at a February Supreme Soviet meeting two years ago that Georgy Malenkov confessed to mismanagement, and dramatically resigned his premiership. It was also in February, one year ago at the 20th Party Congress, that Khrushchev opened the Pandora's box of Stalin's crimes...
...Opera Librarian Lionel Mapleson, an Englishman whose father was librarian to Queen Victoria. Mapleson set out in 1901 to put on wax live performances by all of the opera's greatest stars. More enthusiastic than informed, he at first propped his giant horn in the prompter's box, where it was easily visible to the audience. Then he decided to move it up into the flies, where it was no longer visible, though the grinding of the cylinders was still clearly audible to the singers on the stage. Mapleson ran his machine intermittently for two or three minutes...
...Bunch of Uncles." For his freakish TV success and, more important, for being the remarkable young man he is, Charles Van Doren owes most to the remarkable Van Doren family (see box). Says a friend: "I have always thought the Van Dorens the most successful family I've ever experienced in terms of closeness, intellectual vitality, mutual respect, in terms of exchange of ideas and the flow of electricity that keeps everybody learning all the time. Charlie spent his whole life saturated in this sort of thing." His father is Mark Van Doren, 62, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet and professor...
This year the HYRC's unique method of stuffing the membership ledger instead of the ballot box has assumed quite considerable proportions. All told, over two hundred and forty members have been rushed into the breaches, held open respectively by Hodel and ex-president Thomson, and by the disgruntled editor of the Times-Republican, Bill Smith...
...fact that the productions are growing ever more grand and elaborate. The recent Harvard Dramatic Club staging of Hamlet had a budget of well over four thousand dollars, a figure which is by no means exceptionally large. Unfortunately even when these expensive productions get their outlay back at the box office, the result from an artistic point of view more often than not does not justify the expense...