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...went to the Huntington Theater last week to see Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and knew immediately that one of the actors was extremely familiar. From then on, the drama on stage faded into obscurity as the actor's very face toyed with my memory...
...rest of the play, we could not suppress the images of Jack Tripper tripping over the back of a couch, Felipe the vegetable slicer shouting Spanish curses and Janet hopping around the apartment in nothing but a longish football jersey. In short, we had mentally replaced Lillian Hellman's drama with Three's Company...
...help close the budgetary gap, graduates raised $3 million in a week-long telephone campaign, and started a rescue plan that would add $10 million to the college's $72 million endowment by doubling the yearly gift from the alumnae association. Last week Warren Hellman, chairman of the board of trustees, announced that Mills might not need to enroll male students after all. "You have had a lot of banners for us all week. Here's one for you," Hellman told a crowd of about 300 cheering women as he unfurled a banner that read MILLS -- FOR WOMEN. AGAIN...
Mills' health is especially precarious. The undergraduate student body has withered to 777, more than 200 shy of the 1,000 total the administration claims is necessary to balance its $23 million annual operating budget. Says Mills board chairman Warren Hellman: "In five or six years we would be heading into a death spiral." The school's location only intensifies its recruitment problems. With tuition at $11,900, Mills often loses students to well-regarded state schools like the University of California, Berkeley, just ten miles away, where yearly fees total only...
...famous apercu, author Mary McCarthy charged that everything written by playwright-memoirist Lillian Hellman was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.' " Much the same, Seagrave argues, could be said of Ferdinand Marcos, who blithely concocted a past for his official biographies that bore scant relationship to the truth. Ferdinand claims to be the first son of Mariano Marcos, a provincial teacher and sometime member of Congress. According to Seagrave, there is strong circumstantial evidence -- including his subject's distinctively sinoid features -- that the real father was Judge Ferdinand Chua, scion of a wealthy, politically powerful Chinese clan who came...