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Preston finally rejects all the proposed scripts, and his studio in effect tells him to write it himself or drop dead. When at the outset of Act III, he does produce a good script, he basks in a few short moments of glory until his fraud is discovered: he stole the story from a Shirley Temple movie on the Late Show. At precisely this point the humor drains out of Nobody Loves an Albatross, for the audience begins to realize just how pathetic Preston is. His friends all deliver homilies to the effect that honesty is the best policy...
...Akroa, Ohio, social relations; David S. Forman, of Dunster House and Huntington Woods, Mich., psychology; Donald A. Goldmann, of Winthrop House and Trenton, N.J., history; Ronald J. Greene, of Quincy House and Omaha, Neb., government; Richard H. Grossman, of Lowell House and Beverly Hills, Calif., English; William D. Hart III, of Kirkland House and Merriam, Kansas, philosophy; and Leslie Lessinger, of Lowell House and Brooklyn, N.Y., chemistry and physics...
Also elected were: Martin Rosenman, of Quincy House and Brooklyn, N.Y., mathematics; Jay P. Sage, of Lowell House and Ridgewood, N.J., physics; James A. Shapiro, of Leverett House and Chicago, III., English; Martin C. Spechier, of Adams House and Lima, Ohio, social studies; Stepher F. Tobias, of Dunster House and New York, N.Y., Far Eastern languages; David A. Waller, of Kirkland House and Louisville, Ky., English; Peter K. Weston, of Lowell House and Santa Barbara, Calif., history; and Lawrence J. White, of Adams House and Beverly Hills, Calif., economics...
CHARLES S. WHITMAN III...
...guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...