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Impossible as it would be to come up with figures on the number of frustrated playwrights at Harvard who've written works that have never been read, much less produced, buried away amongst their old term papers, such people do exist. In a drawer in the HDC office there is a pile of two dozen scripts, many written by Harvard and Radcliffe students, aching to be read and produced. And a fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that...
...past boards have managed to do, such mysteries may become irrelevant. Since theater attracts a larger number of participating undergraduates than any other extra-curricular activity, it is only logical that original work should play a primary role in Harvard-Radcliffe drama, rather than being relegated to a bottom drawer in the HDC office...
Moulton complained yesterday that residents believe Harvard has some "kind of grand design" which they keep in the drawer and pull out" when they plan to build...
...Illinois truck driver named Jerry Menozzi, has 1,400 beer cans in his basement, including a Monarch that his great-grandmother kept for decades in a drawer with her lace underwear. Morrie McPherson, of Sycamore, Ill., lucked into one of the biggest beer-can bonanzas in B.C.C.A. history: 60 cases of 25-year-old Goetz Country Club cone-top cans-all unopened-that had been lying in the musty basement of an old bar. Robert Myers of Oakland, Calif, traveled all the way across the continent to Owl's Head, N.Y., after hearing of a lode in the attic...
...understating the problem for women, because a nonworking woman, who does not have to punch a time clock or stand scrutiny in the office, finds it easier than her husband might to hide her habit. One alcoholic housewife in Miami admitted stashing Clorets in every jacket pocket and downstairs drawer to disguise her liquor breath from unexpected callers. Others try to hide their alcoholic breath by sipping Listerine, Scope or vanilla extract...