Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser known organizations in the college, the French Club is at full strength for the first time in years this term, and full-scale operations involving bi-monthly meetings and special events, such as tonight's attraction, ave well under way. Releases about "Les Perles," one of the famous oldtime French productions, depict the story of the wanderings of seven pearls purloined from an old Gallie crown and their subsequent journies from neck to neck. Sacha Guitry is head man in the flick while one Lyn Harding is purported to be the woman to watch...
Bernie Kelly, the mentor of the diving division, is highly pleased with the way Tom Drohan is working out on both the high and low boards. Another February mystery, this time on the positive side of the ledge, appears in the case of Pete Steffens. The son of the famous journalist is now in Greece, but expects to get back to the Indoor Athletic Building in time for some aquatic action...
...reading yesterday afternoon of "The Devil's Art," a new play by Alan Friedman '49, the Harvard Dramatic Club revived the valuable practice of giving student playwrights a chance to see their work on a stage. Productions of student plays were conducted on a grand scale by the famous 47 Workshop under Professor Baker, but have been non-existent in the two decades since he was refused a theatre by President Lowell's administration and went off to Yale. There he established a great drama school with one of Harkness' millions which Lowell had turned down, while Harvard went...
...biggest newspaper in New Hampshire is neither very big nor very famous. But newsmen know the Manchester evening Leader (circ. 20,000) and its morning-after edition, the Union (25,000), as the springboard from which the late Frank Knox bounded to the big time and the Chicago Daily News. Prim and profitable, the Leader has never bothered to put out a Sunday paper, has been content to let Boston dailies grab off most of the morning circulation in town...
Even when his Chouans and La Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...