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Walt E. Hunter ’04, the always savvy and composed president of The Harvard Advocate, seems to perfectly embody the publication’s motto: Dulce est Periculum. With the passing of the first submission deadline and an upcoming reading by Donald Revell sponsored by the magazine, Hunter continues to lead the publication through another semester of its storied tradition of fostering literary talent and criticism...
...needed to confront it. I was ambushed at a book convention. He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes. Franken's job is to do exactly what Donald Segretti did for Nixon--dig up dirt on people. He is not a satirist; he is not a comedian. He's someone who wants to injure people's reputations, and I think people have got to know that...
...Lenin. Okrent is also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things Moderne, Deskey is the man who saved us from Rothafel's stated dream for the Music Hall: "Portuguese Rococo...
...DIED. DONALD O'CONNOR, 78, rubber-limbed actor-dancer who brought an irrepressible vaudeville energy to films and TV; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Born to vaudeville folk, he played straight man to a talking mule in six popular Francis movies and won an Emmy for an early TV series. In the Make 'em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain, he made mock love to a cloth dummy, did backflips off a wall and then hurtled through it--still smiling--in the greatest comic dance solo in film history...
...Died. Donald O'Connor, 78, comedian and film sidekick whose Make 'Em Laugh number in Singin' in the Rain is considered one of the great solo dances in Hollywood history; in Calabasas, California. The son of an Irish-born circus strongman, O'Connor shared top billing in six films with Francis, a talking mule...