Word: browere
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Robert Frost will visit Adams House this year on the newly increased Ford Foundation grant to the Houses, Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams, has disclosed. Student and faculty committees in Dudley and the other Houses have also made tentative plans for use of the grant which this year totals...
Frost will speak to House members at a closed session sometime next month, Brower said. The poet also plans "to do something with students" in a more informal way, and perhaps will read with a group of Adams House writers and poets. Brower emphasized that these events would not be public affairs and admission would be by ticket issued only to members of Adams House...
House masters expressed enthusiasm over the increase. Reuben A. Brower, master of Adams, claimed that "this, more than any other thing since Mr. Lowell, has permitted the Houses to perform their educational function. Before the two grants were made," Brower commented, "we all had the will, but not the means...
...deployment of the grant, Brower asserted that "my idea is that it should be used for people who will visit in various fields." He is now in the process of inviting poets and scientists to reside in the House for a time. At least one such figure has agreed to come to the House, but Brower would not reveal who had been invited...
...Revlon, owns 525,000). With that much financial stake in his own company, Revson expects a lot from Madison Avenue. Small Warwick & Legler (1956 billings: $14.5 million) is expected to get the biggest slice of BBDO's lost account. As for BBDO, said cheery Charlie Brower: "I'll just go out and get eight new $1,000,000 accounts...