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Before the report had been made available to them, Burton S. Dreben '49, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, had told a March meeting of faculty members that the report was one of the worst received by any University department. The dean had gone on to speak of low morale and other severe problems in the graduate program...
...probably the weakest proposition in the play. However, the two principals are admirable. Wary, arrogant, streetwise, tormented, Rollins' Jackson makes demands on every playgoer's conscience, and David Clennon's firm, troubled, incisively probing psychiatrist merits a call from the producers of Equus whenever Richard Burton leaves that strikingly similar role...
While Actor Richard Burton continues his sellout run in the Broadway play Equus, Daughter Kate Burton, 18, has staged her own theatrical debut. Kate, a Brown University freshman whose mother is Richard's first wife, Sybil Christopher, speaks six lines in her college's production of Look Homeward, Angel."I don't know if I'll continue acting," she says. "I'm just doing it for fun right now." Papa Burton, 50, seems less tentative about his daughter's future. "She's not interested in going into the theater," he asserts...
When Bailey rose to deliver his summation, the benches were crowded with spectators expecting one of his famed histrionic displays. He did not disappoint them. Disdaining a microphone and speaking without notes, the Richard Burton of the courtroom kept the jurors-and Patty-spellbound for 46 minutes. He made no attempt to review the entire case, as Browning had. Instead, with his voice fading to a whisper and then rising to a shout, Bailey tried to win over the jurors' hearts, if he had not already won over their minds...
...trustees had offered Harry Woolf, provost of Johns Hopkins University, the presidency last month, but he declined the offer. Mayer will replace Burton C. Hallowell, the retiring president, on July...