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...Boylston Street that had been locked up and unclaimed for several years. Curiosity as to the cabinet's contents led to the tracking down of its key by Promotion Director Robert B. Donovan. The results of its opening are enough to make an ardent archivist drool with sheer delight...
...Leslie Greis is 100 per cent Harvard. Her attitudes and philosophies would delight even the staunchest Crimson traditionalist...
Greis says she also likes Cambridge and the Northeast in general. "I considered Duke, because they have a women's golf team and also a good academic program," Greis says. But she explains, in a fashion that would delight Harvard idealists, that her decision to come to Cambridge involved a bit of foresight...
...superbly displayed his talents for promotion in 1964, when he was matched for the title with Champion Sonny Liston, a great, seemingly invincible giant of a man. Clay called Listen an "ugly old bear" and pranced around carrying a bear trap to the delight of the photographers. Budini Brown, Clay's corner man and cheerleader, gave his fighter the perfect line: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." That is precisely what he did. Cassius attacked, disappeared on those marvelously fast feet, attacked again, disappeared again, until the bear was beaten, helpless in his corner...
MAYBE DOCTORS and medical-school students will have a good time at Coma, nudging each other in delight whenever they recognize an organ, or giggling helplessly every time a decaying body on a dissection table brings back raunchy memories. But most of us aren't doctors, and our tolerance for this sort of thing is low. Why should a director bother to compose a frame so that it's charged with subliminal tension when he can just shove a fresh, juicy kidney into the camera and the audience will dive out of its seats? If you're going...