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...Died. Ivor Novello (Davies), 58, Welsh-born British matinee idol, tunesmith and playwright (Careless Rapture, Perchance to Dream), best known in the U.S. fo Keep the Home Fires Burning; of a coronary thrombosis; in London...
...Historian David Owen ("Don't let yourselves become pedantic and pompous"), Biologist William H. Weston ("Never . . . feel an envious resentment toward [a student] if ... he shows promise of surpassing you"). Well up front, the Handbook offers a general caution or two about the whole profession. Writes famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, after eleven years as a teacher at Harvard: "It's a daunting business being a professor . . . You will have, if you join this curious trade, to walk in public an endless slack wire over incredible abysses. It's a quivering wire, which seems to be constantly...
...four present University professorships are held by economist Summer H. Slichter, humanist Ivor A. Richards, classicist Werner Jaeger, and biochemist Edwin H. Cohn...
...Reds: Ivor Montagu, British film producer; Dr. Eugene Aubel, French chemist; Furio Diaz, mayor of Leghorn. Pinks: Jean Lurgat, French artist; Dr. Max Cosyns, a leading Belgian atomic scientist; Hans Erni, Swiss painter; Luigi Cacciatore, a leader of the Italian Socialist Party; Dr. Mario Montesi, Communal Councilor of Rome; Giuseppina Palumbo, Italian Socialist Senator; Professor Mario Oliviero Olivo, Italian specialist in anatomy and histology...
Rather timidly, the Observer's Drama Critic Ivor Brown complained that the festival "is finding problems in its own success." There was, he thought, too much cultural plum pudding crammed into three weeks, leaving some customers with a stomachache...