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...Yale University admissions office did not share this success. Margit A. Dahl, Yale director of admissions, said yesterday that more than 40 students will be pulled from the Yale waiting list...
Hearn, 48, who has been married and divorced three times, had the same fears as Barry, but nonetheless agreed to put on full female regalia for his audition. "When George walked out, he looked like Arlene Dahl opening at the Latin Quarter," says Producer Allan Carr. "He plopped himself on top of the piano, crossed his legs and sang My Heart Belongs to Daddy. There was a kind of triumph and electricity to the way he did it. We never considered anyone else." Still, it took Hearn eight weeks to learn to sing while simultaneously putting on makeup...
DIVORCED. Patricia Neal, 57, Oscar-winning actress (Hud, 1963), and Roald Dahl, 66, British author of macabre short stories (Switch Bitch) and wry children's tales (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); after 30 years of marriage, five children; in London. Dahl's affair with one of his wife's friends devastated a marriage that had survived much tragedy: a traffic accident that caused brain damage to their son, the death of a seven-year-old daughter from measles, and three nearly fatal strokes that partly paralyzed Neal during her fifth pregnancy...
More than 130 students have not responded yet, Dahl said, adding that her admission officials "are currently tracking them down...
About 1170 students have accepted Yale so far for the desired class size of 1280, Dahl said, adding, that about 55 students will be taken from the waist list--the most in the past few years...