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Just below Harvard ("in a class by itself"), the AAUP listed Princeton, Duke, Yale, Amherst, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as other high paying universities...
...another film which Hollywood could not handle. It will be shot this summer in Harlem and will explore juvenile delinquency in a way that people who found West Side Story a great movie might discover hard to take. Its mood is the oppressive apathy of Harlem; its hero is "Duke" Custis, a fourteen year old Negro boy, who has struck out to find his identity according to the only standards he has ever seen honored, as head of a street gang...
...more than makes up for his vocal defects by embellishing each role with small dramatic touches of his own-a twitch here, a little shuffle of surprise there-that bring character to life. Son of a well-to-do Roman family, De Paolis made his debut as the Duke in Rigoletto at Bologna in 1919, later sang tenor leads at virtually every major house in Europe. But, he says, "I never had a large voice; I knew that I could go on being a tenor of the second rank forever -but suppose I could become the best character actor...
Coach Jack Barnaby expressed satisfaction with the Crimson's play against North Carolina, Duke, Clemson, and Presbyterian College and pointed to the decisive win over Army as an indication of the team's progress. Harvard took all but the second doubles match in straight sets from the Cadets in its first Eastern Intercollegiate Conference contest...
...inexpensive study that rouses others to give on a grand scale. Today this is partly by necessity. Carnegie is a powerhouse among U.S. foundations, which now total 12,000. But in market value of its assets ($286.6 million), it runs a poor fifth to the top four: Hartford and Duke (each with more than $400 million). Rockefeller ($615 million) and the colossal Ford Foundation ($2.5 billion). Last fiscal year alone, Ford earmarked $155.7 million for new grants, as against Carnegie's $12.8 million...