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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...inspired the title for a comedy called Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Last week millions of televiewers found out the answer: no, because there is nothing to spoil. His amiable, muscular and vacant manner scarcely intruded on some predictably competent guests-Lisa Kirk (topnotch nightclub numbers), Sammy Davis Jr. (dervish dances and impersonations), Comedian Mort Sahl (sick, sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hard Way to Tell a Joke | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Charles) Easton Rothwell, 57, as eighth president of select (enrollment: 726) Mills College for women, "the Vassar of the West," in Oakland, Calif. Historian Rothwell succeeds Historian Lynn White Jr., who quit after 15 years to teach medieval history at U.C.L.A. A stocky, balding Westerner, raised in Montana, Easton Rothwell graduated from Portland's Reed College (1924), taught social sciences at the University of Oregon and Stanford. He switched to the State Department in World War II, became a top adviser to Cordell Hull, went on in 1947 to Stanford's famed Hoover Institute of War, Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Faces | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...LINE-UP NO. NAME POSITION 80 CAPPIELLO, DAVID L. E 84 KEOHANE, HAROLD J. E 71 NELSON, K. ERIC T 70 PILLSBURY, ROBERT L. T 60 LENZNER, TERRY F. G 68 WEIDLER, JERRY L. G 51 ELIADES, PETER G. C 40 BOULRIS, CHESTER J. B 12 CULLEN, ALBERT F., JR. B 44 HAUGHIE, GLENN E. B 24 RAVENEL, CHARLES D. B 10 Damis, John J. B 11 Williams, Roy. B 14 Repsher, Lawrence H. B 15 Hunter, Robert L., Jr. B 20 Watts, H. Grady, Jr. B 21 Boone, Thomas H. B 22 Ullyot, James R. B 23 Adams, Myron...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harvard vs. Columbia, 1877-1959 | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

Most University officials, as well as the Masters, concede that the Houses are crowded beyond the desirable point, several officials said. But the problem arises--is total deconversion to the "normal" capacity of each suite a desideratum? John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, contended yesterday that it is. "It may be assumed as a simple rule," he said, "that everyone needs a room by himself...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Masters, Deans Approve Survey Of Student Wishes on Crowding | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

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