Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willingly complied, and chose Shaw's Saint Joan. On hearing of the choice, Shaw cabled: "Delighted to hear St Joan being done at Harvard stop have always wanted to see Joan played by male." The choice was excellent; and the production, in Sanders Theatre, was magnificent. Typical of Kilty's directive imagination was the decision to perform the coronation scene in the transept of Memorial Hall. The audience moved out of Sanders and became the congregation; the scene was played on a specially constructed altar at the north end, while fire-department searchlights outdoors focussed on the stained-glass windows...
...felt a sentimental tie to his old school. So he decided to bring the two together. U.S. Information Service Officer Arthur A. Bardos handled the technical details, asked the Moulay Hassan school faculty to suggest a student for a St. Paul's scholarship. The faculty unanimously chose Abdallah...
...down a challenge: he would bet $10,000 to $1,000 that, in a match of 150 rubbers, he and his wife Josephine, using the Culbertson system, would beat Lenz and any partner, using the Official System. Under Culbertson's relentless public needling, Lenz reluctantly accepted the challenge, chose as his partner hefty Oswald Jacoby, later famed as an expert on canasta and poker as well as bridge. Named as referee was Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, a West Point instructor and part-time bridge tournament director who rose to become Supreme Allied Commander in Europe...
After receiving Dawson's resignation, the HYRC Planning Committee unanimously chose David F. Peterson '59 to act as interim president until a general meeting can be scheduled for the election of a new president...
...propaganda purposes, the rulers of the Communist world chose to overlook the reality of this standoff. Each time units of the Seventh Fleet ventured within Red China's self-proclaimed twelve-mile limit (TIME, Sept. 15), Peking issued a "serious warning." (By week's end Red China's Foreign Ministry was up to "the fifth serious warning.") In a wave of synthetic fury unmatched since Korean war days, millions of Chinese-205 million by Peking's count-docilely turned out to demonstrate against "U.S. armed provocations." Describing U.S. military bases abroad as "a noose around...