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...year after the cutoff date Yale had originally announced, the school had succeeded in topping Stanford's record by pulling in $316 million, but Yale officials were disturbed at being so far short of their goal. The chief problems: the unsettling mid-campaign departure of President Kingman Brewster, and overreliance on volunteer solicitors (more than 5,400 of them). Though 44 contributors pledged $1 million or more (biggest single gift: $15 million from New York Publisher-Philanthropist John Hay Whitney), there were fewer fat-cat givers than had been expected...
ENGAGED. Joseph P. Kennedy II, 26, eldest son of Ethel Kennedy and the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who until recently worked for an antipoverty agency in Washington, D.C.; and Sheila Brewster Rauch, 29, staff member of Boston's department of housing, development and construction; in Philadelphia...
...Republic he could "speak the truth as I saw it without feeling responsible for people's jobs," he said. The American theater had come to a "dead halt," and Brustein was considering moving on to general cultural criticism--books, movies, sometimes theater--when in 1966. Yale President Kingman Brewster approached him about taking over the Yale School of Drama...
Brustein reports that Kingman Brewster had initially said to him, "You've been shooting your mouth off about the theater--why don't you do something about it?" And for one of the stiffest critics in theater, there were "painful consequences" in dealing with people when he tried to put his ideals into action. One consequence was that Brustein has gained a reputation among some people for arrogance. But his colleagues dismiss this, finding him gentlemanly and stimulating. "He's no more arrogant than any other talented person I've ever worked with," says Alvin Epstein...
...John B. Pahls Jr. Brewster...