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...professor would merely tip his brown fedora, whatever one did, and quietly amble on. Sometimes he would ride to the college by bus and crowded electric tram. But if he happened to be late, he would occasionally pull up in an imperial limousine with the Emperor's chrysanthemum crest on the door. Furthermore, there was the problem of knowing how to address him. The new professor was none other than Prince Takahito Mikasa, 39, brother of the Emperor, and the only prince of the royal blood ever to teach in a classroom...
...Gwen Verdon is far from humble. She knows her ability, studies and practices her art constantly and, though she is impulsively zany enough to dye her white cat's tail pink on the spur of the moment, she takes her professional life with utter seriousness. Riding the wave crest of her first big success, modest Gwen Verdon gives herself only five more years as a dancer. But the suddenly astute showmen of Broadway and Hollywood seem little inclined, at the moment, to let her rest her talented legs so soon. Gwen's telephone these days is ajangle with...
From its foundations, whose thickness once led to suspicions that they were planned as German gun bases, to the crest of its tower, whose weather vane is an outstanding replica of medieval European metal-work, the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture stands as a monument to one of the most checkered careers in Harvard archaeological history...
Mercer Island divided bitterly over Stenhouse. Three of his four fellow board members called on him to resign. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather resign and crawl into a hole somewhere." Late last month some 250 islanders thronged to a meeting in the Mercer Crest School to discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
...back and her teeth clamped on an aqualung, Jane is not at her best. Even the sharks seem to pursue her with not much conviction. Although it has little to recommend it, Underwater promises to be a hard picture to avoid. Ten days before it was released, on the crest of an expense-be-damned publicity campaign, it had already racked up more bookings than any RKO movie in the past ten years...