Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head & Shoulders. Heading C.U.'s drama department is zestful, 39-year-old Father Gilbert Vincent Hartke, who shouldered the experiment nine years ago. He started off trying to raise $100,000 for productions, wound up with $200. There were some close shaves. Once Robert Speaight guest-acted for four performances in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. Then C.U. staged a fifth performance-to raise enough money...
Stokowski, pleading other engagements, had refused a March invitation to guest-conduct the Havana Philharmonic. But then a Chilean impresario, Jorge Estradé, signed him up for a Havana concert in February with the same orchestra. In due time, Stokie arrived with his luscious, 21-year-old wife, Gloria, bustled into Havana's Hotel Nacional. Soon the lobby boasted a life-size cardboard cutout of Stokowski, announcing that he would conduct the Beethoven Ninth on Feb.11...
Thus President William Allan Patterson of United Air Lines, honor guest at a private dinner party at Manhattan's University Club, proudly recalled last week the achievements for which his company had received two national safety awards...
...luxury of Florida's lush $19,000,000 Boca Raton Club, two news tycoons held an outwardly amiable reunion last week. The host was big, bluff Kent Cooper, 65, executive director of the Associated Press. His guest, young enough (41) to be his son, was slight, greying, boyish-faced Christopher Chancellor, general manager and rejuvenator of A.P.'s No. 1 world rival, Britain's Reuters...
...Wisconsin's Beloit College. It applies to homecomings, and to "hell weeks" (during which freshman coeds have to do such tricks as painting class numerals on their cheeks and dancing the conga backwards). Last week Beloit had an official party, with Novelist Lin Yutang as an honored guest, to celebrate its 100th birthday...