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Short v. Tall. The plot is Simon simple; yet it has all the engaging velocity of a Feydeau farce. Two short and jolly people, Eddie Kettle (Charles Repole) and Elsie Darling (Virginia Seidel), have just got married to two very tall and stuffy people, Georgina Kettle (Spring Fairbank) and Percy Darling (Nicholas Wyman). Precipitately, the foursome is separated as the two short people sail on a Hudson River excursion liner, and the tall people miss the boat. The couples reunite at the upriver Honeymoon Inn, where the explanations get hot, long and sticky, tempers get short, and the fun gets...
...fund raising program is composed of an alumni committee, headed by Thomas J. Coolidge Jr. '54, chairman of Back Bay-Orient Enterprises, Inc. and the Korea Capital Corporation; and a faculty committee chaired by John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History...
...stuff they can't get out of the newspaper." Anway says, material which is general enough to interest nearly everyone. Last year's program included a week of Greek and Cretan culture with John H. Finley '25, and a week on East Asia with Reischauer and John K. Fairbank '29. This year's science and medicine program was experimental, and no one seems to be quite sure what its appeal was; but it was successful, with 75 registrants, and Kimball feels that future programs will probably include some kind of general science course...
...John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson professor of History and director of the Council on East Asian Studies, said yesterday he thinks the proposal "sounds great." He said he is not sure whether the chair will play a role in the East Asian Studies program...
...John Fairbank, L.H.D., East Asia scholar and author (China Perceived...