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...slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used to appear in, and she was in it. Newman, who is self-conscious about his bony legs, was so abashed that, as he points out now with some glee, he refused to look at the camera. When what is referred to in Newman family lore as the Worst Picture Ever Made played in a weeklong run on television in Los Angeles some years ago, he took out a large ad in the Los Angeles Times: PAUL NEWMAN APOLOGIZES EVERY...
According to various sources, the Glee Club first tried to schedule Sanders for tomorrow night's performance, but cancelled over the summer. They reportedly awarded the date to the Dins, while the Kroks were touring in Europe...
...trouble began about a month ago, when John Shirley, a United States Information Agency official and Yale alum, asked the Glee Club to participate in a USIA broadcast for Voice of America radio Aired December 13, the program will mark the first anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in Poland, the move which eventually destroyed the labor union Solidarity and squelched the freedom of the Polish people...
...Glee Club had already agreed to record the song when Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti stepped in. He forbade the enterprise entirely. In a statement released last week. Giamatti explained that the Glee Club represented the University and added. "The University does not take sides or lend its name to one political cause or another, no matter how compelling that cause...
...Connecticut Inc. called it a "slap in the face," and criticized Giamatti for not allowing the singers to "lift a finger in support of that embattled and impoverished nation." Columnist William F. Buckley criticized Giamatti's plea that the University not speak out on political issues. "Perhaps a glee club representing a university less fastidious than Yale will...risk its reputation by siding with the men and women of Poland," he wrote in a syndicated column last week...