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...before a House investigating committee. He made bitter enemies ("He only talks about money and buildings. He's not an educator") and loyal friends ("He has the good will of all. I don't know anybody who isn't his friend"), all in all managed to chalk up quite a record: in 16 years, the University's research increased tenfold, its campus grew by $79 million worth of new buildings, its enrollment rose from...
...Cinemascope fame. The final production of the summer will be Shaw's "Saint Joan," starring the Irish actress Siobhan McKenna, who won great acclaim in the role in Dublin and London a few seasons ago, and who made her American debut on Broadway this past season in "The Chalk Garden...
...Boston's New England Mutual Hall, changing casts will offer one-week stands of varying fare, such as "The Chalk Garden" with Lillian and Dorothy Gish...
Most works with any real distinction possessed foreign blood. The season's most creative new play was British Writer Enid Bagnold's witty, elegantly savage The Chalk Garden. Even more finely tempered was Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux's humanely ironic lament for the Trojan and all subsequent wars. Audiences might argue whether Samuel Beckett's puzzling, plotless Waiting for Godot was profound art or a mere philosophic quiz show; less arguable was the neatness of its writing, the desolation of its mood. In Lillian Hellman's sharp adaptation, Jean Anouilh...
...chalk players, naturally, had known it all along. As they queued up to cash their mutuel tickets (the favorite paid $5.20 for $2), they talked of another Kentucky tradition: "Never bet against the son of a Derby winner in a Derby." Needles' sire, Ponder, ran off with the Derby in 1949. And just to make the old saw stick, Ponder's sire, Pensive, turned the trick...