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...fall of 1981 Rochester may be in for some big-name visitors indeed, names like Bok and Rosovsky. Peter F. Clifton '49, executive director of the Harvard College Fund, says Harvard's $250 million, five-year capital campaign is tentatively scheduled to "kick off" in Rochester then, with a big dinner for local alumni and top brass from the University...
...drive hasn't geared up in the Rochester area, Clifton says, and local reports bear him out. Sibley says, "I have not heard of any activity in this area affecting the fund drive, period." Development officials have earmarked the first year-and-a-half of the Campaign for gifts of more than $25,000, and Sibley says that rules out practically every potential contributor in the area...
Sibley has asked not to manage the Campaign in the Rochester area since he just finished work on his 35th reunion, Clifton says. Sibley says he thinks the two local alumni who had organized the January luncheon may have taken charge of the local campaign...
...touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have found his strongest comic voice. A distant cousin to Lenny Bruce's abrasive small-timer bombing at the London Palladium, Tony is the dark side of every comic. He is also, to Andy Kaufman, very real. Tony Clifton...
...Tony doppelgänger appears beside Andy to take bows at the end of the show. Kaufman insists Clifton is a real person he once mimicked, who is now appearing in person. "Everyone thinks he's me," Kaufman says. "It's really destroying Tony's career." It is clear that Kaufman's comedy in every incarnation is like a full-dress masque that sets new rules, tests new limits. "I never told a joke in my life," he says, with pride. The essence of his gift, the full range of his promise, is just this simple...