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...tries, Wald says, to make it "a happy course." Notorious for name-dropping, he tosses in references to "and then I said to Einstein, 'But Albert . . .' "?and his audience, as on cue, hisses in chorus. Wald pretends to ignore this, actually loves it. "He isn't really teaching," says Freshman Tom Zanna. "He's inspiring." Radcliffe English Major Valerie Rough says she is "spiritually majoring in biology" because Wald makes it "so esthetically appealing." Harvard Dean of Arts and Sciences Franklin Ford says Wald generates an "amazing quality of intellectual excitement...
...cue, girl stooges in the first rows led an assault on the stage that was followed by hundreds of screaming fans. Brown flung off his coat, magnanimously tossed his cuff links to the crowd, and was led off draped in a purple cape-only to rush back for another number...
...brought together for the first time. It was not exactly a dry run with Dean. For one thing, Dean didn't bother to take part; for another, he was breaking out the dressing-room bottle and splashing himself a tall Scotch and water. Then came dress rehearsals, the cue for Martin's second Scotch and a gagging, ragging appearance onstage. Then dinner break and another Scotch. "We'd rather have him do it only once and have it fresh," says Director Greg Garrison. And after dinner, he did it-once and fresh...
...trouble! Right here in Windy City! The very reverend himself had taken up a cue in a West Madison Street billiard parlor in Chicago to try to shove a ball in a pocket. Looking like the fiercest shark in the pool, Nobel Prizewinner Martin Luther King Jr., 37, was making the best of a bad leave on the eleven with a thin-cut one-rail shot to the corner. Cracked the preacher, who had hustled in from a civil rights walking tour of the city for the game: "I'm just shooting my best stick." No masse demonstrations, please...
Tireless Rounds. There was chamber music with some of the "local talent" like Heifetz and Piatigorsky. Once, the story goes, Albert Einstein began to play a violin and piano sonata with Rubinstein. Einstein missed a cue in one passage and came in four beats late. They started again, and again Einstein flubbed. They began once more, and the great scientist again missed the cue. Finally, the exasperated Rubinstein cried, "For God's sake, Professor, can't you even count up to four...