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Died. Daniel L. Marsh, 88, president of Boston University from 1926 to 1951, chancellor since 1951, and architect of B.U.'s development into a first-rank center of learning; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crusty, often controversial in matters not relating to education, Marsh was a fervent advocate of Prohibition, believed that because of TV "we are destined to have a nation of morons." There was no argument about the near miracle he worked at B.U., where he took a moldering collection of brownstones for 9,600 students in 1926 and built a multiversity that today boasts 23,000 students...
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JACQUELINE DU PRÉ: HAYDN'S CELLO CONCERTO IN C and BOCCHERINI'S CELLO CONCERTO IN B FLAT (Angel). Israeli Daniel Barenboim has earned a reputation as a first-rank pianist, and his British wife Jacqueline du Pre has won an equally enthusiastic following for her accomplishments with the cello. Neither is shy about displaying virtuosity, and this disk demonstrates that Mr. Barenboim is master of his house even on the concert stage, for he conducts his wife and the English Chamber Orchestra into the crystal world of Haydn and Boccherini with great aplomb. Jacqueline is so absorbed...
...President has undeniably failed in some signal tests of executive performance. He has not built a genuine "Johnson team." Curiously, more first-rank Kennedy men have stuck it out with him than have the men whom he himself brought into the Government, notably Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, George Reedy. Johnson, moreover, has failed to perform the crucial executive function of charting a clear course for the future. One top economist complains that Johnson's close-to-the-vest method of operation, perfected during 24 years in Congress, has left major institutions stumbling around in the dark on vital policy...
...actor is Maurice Evans, 66, who for three decades has been a first-rank interpreter of Shakespeare and Shaw, co-starring with Dame May Whitty, Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson and Helen Hayes. What is he doing playing opposite Adam West in Batman? Evans concedes that the TV scripts are sometimes "ridiculous" and the casts hardly top drawer. There are physical hazards, too. In Marrakesh, while filming / Spy, a street urchin stole his arch supports! On the Tarzan set in Mexico, his pants were singed in a fire, and he got cut and bruised clambering up a cliff...