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Leon I. Jacobson '63, president of the HRLU and chairman of the Union's Civil Liberties Committee, said yesterday that his committee was organized after Burton White leader of the San Francisco demonstrations against the HUAC in May, 1960, visited the University this fall. White is now chairman of the Bay Area Committee to Abolish the HUAC...
...destined for sainthood. Not content just to applaud, much of the audience stands and noisily shouts its appreciation for his movingly perfect performance. Appearing in the U.S. for the first time, Scofield was preceded by a reputation hard to live up to. From Kenneth Tynan to Richard Burton, British critics and actors place him among the contemporary greats, ranking him with Olivier and Gielgud. No one who has seen A Man for All Seasons will quibble for a moment. The son of a schoolmaster, Scofield learned his actor's trade as a member of the Birmingham Repertory, played Shakespeare...
Fighting this label, Fulbright points insistently to the benefits he has won for Arkansas: "You have a new hospital here, and I'm proud to have had a part in it through the Hill-Burton program . . . Your watershed program here is a model, and I want to compliment you on it. You needed it to get these new industrial plants. I'm not saying I did it all but certainly I had a small part . . . When it comes to spending money on the Arkansas River. I plead guilty to being a spender." He has a pet statistic ready...
...Burton White, a leader of the San Francisco riots against the House Committee on Un-American Activities in May of 1960, last night condemned the House Un-American Activities Committee for "attacking the aspects of society which lead to a freer nation...
Nuzzling Birds. New York Times Financial Columnist Burton Crane has put out an album called Stock Market Profits for the Sophisticated Investor, presumably for the investor who is not sophisticated enough to read Crane's columns or books. Occupying six twelve-inch sides, it is as long as many complete operas, is salted with Crane's forthright advice: "Get the hell out at the first sign of high water...