Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Couperin's Premier Lecon de Tencbres, sung by soprano Helen Boatwright, was not a total success. The music too often bore no relation tot he words (excerpts from the Book of Jeremiah.) Still, there were many powerful moments such as the final plea to Jerusalem, which is repeated five times with different treatment each time. Miss Boatwright may not have the strongest voice in the world, but it is clear and accurate, and she sang with real comprehension of the Latin text...
...season last week at Columbia University, when kidnaping freshmen becomes a popular extracurricular activity, Freshman H. Gordon Butler, 20, of East Providence, R.I., unwittingly set something of a record. One afternoon, a group of sophomores, including Peter Douglas, 19-year-old son of Actor Melvyn Douglas and ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, dragged Butler to a car and drove him down to the Douglas apartment on Park Avenue. They bound his hands, taped his mouth, wrapped his face and head with bandages, and whisked him off to La Guardia airport. There they plunked him on a plane, strapped...
Last week the city desk's Thucydides had a new job to sweat over. Tribune Publisher Helen Rogers Reid and her son, Editor Whitelaw Reid, 39, moved Herzberg over to run the slipping Sunday edition (circ. 596,775), which up to now has had no boss of its own. They want Herzberg to pep it up to closer competition with the fat, profitable Sunday Times (circ. 1,051,626), which in the past year gained 5,000 circulation while the Sunday Trib was losing 38,000. To prove that they mean business, the Reids are spending...
Freshmen elected members to this committee as follows: Holmes, Helen Gardiner and Joan Rubinstein; Cabot, Anne Tyler and Ernestine Woodward; Eliot, Betty-Jo Linch; Whitman, Paula Morse and Anne Newman; Bertram, Carol Kirsch; Briggs, Sally Huntington and Nancy Leet; Barnard, Jeanne Jason and Virginia Winstead; Moors, Mary Jane Richards and Eleanor Smith; Commuters, Joan Harvey and Jeanmaric MacKelvie...
...group had banded together before Nixon's senatorial campaign. They were all ardent admirers of Nixon, the young Quaker Congressman, and wanted him to run for the Senate. They raised some $25,000 for his campaign against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas. "After he was elected," explained a fund member, "we wanted him to continue what we all looked on as a kind of California crusade for good government. Dick didn't have a dime of his own. So this fund was set up to cover his extraordinary expenses outside his office. Dick never got a nickel...