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...smoke." Not since Maude Adams has a famous actress cherished such a private private life. She and her husband. Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum. They seldom go out, seldom entertain. Julie does the housework when she doesn't have a play, and takes care of the baby, Peter, who is four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life," she says, "but it tires...
...student petition for extended parietal hours to entertain women in the Houses yesterday met flat rejection by the Faculty Administrative Board...
...family quarrel, they could not choose but hear. As the week wore on, the young Princess fulfilled her royal functions, well-armed in the impassive mask of dignity that is royalty's required uniform. In tiara and strapless pink and white gown, she helped her sister the Queen entertain the visiting President of Portugal by sitting through a performance of Smetana's The Bartered Bride, while a soprano sang to a forbidden lover, "Nothing in the world will ever part us." She snatched moments alone with Peter Townsend, whenever she could, at the homes of friends brave enough...
...instead of sitting with the boys in the cheering section. Radcliffe was still a much-maligned institution whose students were worth nothing except A's in courses taught by Harvard Faculty members. But during the last war, when expediency brought "joint education" and inflation brought soaring prices for outside entertainment, the dam of the anti-feminists broke. House residents now entertained women guests in considerable numbers, and in 1946 the Masters, disturbed by non-masculine sounds emanating from House rooms in the early afternoon, decided that they didn't like the pre-4 p.m. part of the new parietal regulations...
...decided to wait, knowing that before long students would inevitably appeal for extended parietal hours, thus giving them an opportunity to re-open the whole issue with a vengeance. And in the fall of 1950, sure enough, the seven House Committee chairmen unanimously asked the Masters for permission to entertain women guests until midnight on the Saturdays of the Yale and Dartmouth weekends. A petition furthered the appeal, by demanding midnight room permission on all Saturdays, while the CRIMSON pointed out that "anything that can be done in the rooms between 8 and 12 can be done before 8." Tension...