Word: burtons
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...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...
...South Africa's Sizwe Banzi is Dead). It survived a stormy infancy, including a Pulitzer abortion at birth in 1963 (nominated, then rejected for being offensive), early charges of obscenity and immorality, vicious rumors (Was the play really written for four homosexuals?) and callous adolescent pranks (an Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie version with more fangs than heart, 1966) to emerge as a classic of the American theater. The current production at the Colonial shows that passage through 15 controversial years has not dated the play, but enriched...
...talking about serious issues with considerable forthrightness and a minimum of humbug," while the voters were "listening rather closely, asking serious questions and getting serious answers." Nevertheless, the issues were not defined as clearly as they will be in the shakedown process of later primaries. Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton saw the nation's "quirkiest, contrariest and most stubbornly individualistic voters" making their choices mainly on the basis of personality and character...
After five divorces and assorted careless raptures, Actress Elizabeth Taylor has made more exits than a cross-country truck driver. Last week she added still another. Taylor, who first wed Actor Richard Burton in 1964, divorced him in 1974 and then remarried him last October, went to New York City to watch his opening in the Broadway show Equus. Liz was miffed, however, to find Dick spending his offstage time with Susan Hunt, 27, estranged wife of Race-Car Driver James Hunt. For his part, Dick, 50, was said to be troubled by Liz's reported outings recently...
...accepts the post, Woolf will replace retiring president Burton Hallowell...