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...Curt Beebe of Hollis, N.H., and Thayer Hall, was recently elected captain of the freshman ski team. In the team's two meets, Beebe has won three events and placed high in the others. His best events are the cross country and downhill races...
...magazine ads as a genial beer guzzler, hit the town of Greensboro, N.C. and made some ungenial, damyankee noises. Caught either off guard (according to a local reporter) or off record (according to Douglas), the actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time the show had rolled on to Atlanta, Actor Douglas was trying to get his foot out of his mouth, succeeded only in jamming...
Michael Karpovich, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will become the first holder of the newly established Curt Hugo Reisinger Professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures, McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced last week...
...Draped Reclining Figure by a contemporary Briton, Henry Moore, was part of a Moore show at the Curt Valentin Gallery. Moore, as renowned in his own lifetime as Blake was scorned in his, received the usual all-out praise from Manhattan critics. The New York Times's Howard Devree went so far as to write that "the figures stand or sit or lie like members of some ancient race of prototypes of man, self-contained and with vision that goes out over larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that...
Mendès stalked to the rostrum. Tight-lipped and curt, he announced that he was making the approval of this minor item a matter of confidence, and staking his government on the outcome. What was more, he warned he would repeat this procedure as often as necessary to get the budget voted on time...