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...woman show on Broadway. And so it finally happened in a one-night benefit replete with hoops and hoopla and costumes from South Pacific, Gypsy and, of course, Hello, Dolly! Briefly joining the high jinks onstage were the likes of Yul Brynner, Burgess Meredith, Joel Grey and Geoffrey Holder-who kicked up their heels in an all-male chorus line. When it was over, Ethel, 68, sighed, "Fm on Cloud Nine," and Mary. 63, was still savoring the roars of the audience. "It was like we had hit twelve home runs at Yankee Stadium." Naturally there is talk about repeating...
Much is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's life, much lost. He was a vintner's son who rose (through cleverness and, no doubt, the ability to entertain highborn ladies with after-dinner recitals) to become a government official, courtier and diplomat under three successive monarchs - Edward II, Edward III and Richard II. He was at least briefly a soldier, and while fighting in France under the Black Prince, he was captured, then ransomed for ?16. The smallness of this sum is a favorite joke among Chaucerians, but it amounts to $3,840 in modern terms, by Gardner...
Arnold and two other Harvard students, Jeffrey Ferris '77 and Geoffrey Wisner '80 are the only undergraduates who have refused to post the $100 bail...
Thomas Arnold '80, Jefferey Ferris '77 and Geoffrey Wisner '80 have all declined to post the required 100 bail to obtain release from the armory, pending a ruling on a petition filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Concord...
Pope John XXIII opened the way to a reunification of Anglicans and Catholics when he invited the Archbishop of Canterbury, then Geoffrey Fisher, to Rome in 1960. In 1966 Archbishop Michael Ramsey visited Pope Paul, but the present visit of Donald Coggan has been hailed in Vatican circles as a particularly significant milestone on the road to eventual unity...