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Walter B. Farnham '59, president of the Harvard Opera Guild, disagreed, however. "I'm not altogether sure it's too good to have a director at all," he said, "Amateur directors here would not get adequate experience, and, after all, this is one of the main aims of the College's dramatic program...
...father, Leonard W. Labaree, is Farnham Professor of History at Yale, presently engaged in editing the Benjamin Franklin Papers. So Labaree was born at New Haven, and thence began a journey which has led ultimately to the Winthrop House doorstep--but by the scenic route...
...whisky, cuts loose occasionally on the trumpet (which he plays with some skill), flies his own plane. He drives solely to win, cares little about how he accomplishes it ("I haven't bloody well got a driving style"). Hawthorn started racing motor bikes as a teen-ager in Farnham, Surrey, where his father ran a garage. Driving for Ferrari and Jaguar since 1953, Hawthorn has gained a reputation for punishing the cars he drives, getting involved in frequent accidents. He has no manager. "Mike couldn't be managed," explained a friend. "One day he is friendly...
Died. Mateel Howe Farnham, 73, novelist (Marsh Fire, Wild Beauty, Lost Laughter, The Tollivers) and prolific short-story writer for women's magazines; in Norwalk, Conn. Daughter of the late Author-Editor-Philosopher Edgar Watson (Ed) Howe, Author Farnham won a $10,000 prize for her first novel, Rebellion (1927), describing a girl's breakaway from a tyrannical father, once (1934) wrote TIME: "I did write a novel about a rebellious daughter and an old-fashioned father, but not about this daughter or my own father...
...three principals are supported by Peggy Lapsley, Walter Farnham, and Eleanor Mayher, who play loyal believers in the medium's powers. Music Director Bernard E. Kreger has ably welded them into a clear, understandable ensemble, and all three, but particularly Miss Lapsley, perform with distinction...