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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend of Hayes-Bickford well knows you must add or subtract one or two decibels from the continuous spiel of college theatre people, if you seek something akin to the ring of truth (that is). Whether you add or subtract largely depends on which way the warm wind blows; when a number of The Good Woman's company quit in desperation last week, the breeze ran swift and hot. My abacus lost track utterly, trying to keep count amid such blustery meteorology and all. You sometimes wonder why such a modest little show as this one should involve these higher...
When Mrs. Pusey moved into 17 Quincy Street five years ago, the living room bookshelves were empty, and this drew an admonition from a chatty friend. "My dear," she told her, "you don't know what a bad impression it makes for the President of Harvard to have empty bookcases...
...Wellesley debater, dressed in black, claimed to be "in mourning" for a close friend who had committed suicide rather than risk dishonor. Another claimed she had once refused a date with an M.I.T. boy. But the freshmen replied with a quote from Emerson: "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons...
...Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"); Fitzgerald insisting on being spoon-fed by Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich and spewing up coffee and trying to bite Gingrich's hand during the feeding; Fitzgerald goading a friend into punching him, and upon being lightly tapped mumbling bitterly to himself, "That big, hulking brute-and me dying of tuberculosis"; Fitzgerald entangled in his pajamas waking in terror at the thought that his arms are paralyzed. Sheilah could not save him from himself and she sometimes sank...
Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. Prickly Monty needles friend and foe in this highly personal autobiography...