Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hogg,† seventyish daughter of Texas' wealthy Governor (1890-95) Jim Hogg. She reigns as an absolute empress, and Houston Junior Leaguers have learned that the only sure way to her is through the symphony. When "Miss Ima" starts her annual fund drive at her mansion on Lazy Lane, the Houston girls fall all over their pretty feet to help, and the result is usually a fat ($200,000) contribution to the orchestra's yearly budget. In her box at the symphony's opening night, she discreetly holds court, swathed in ermine...
...when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly. Tenor David Poleri (Michele) has a tongue-lashing, show-stopping aria (". . . You are ashamed to say: 'I was Italian' "), and Soprano Gloria Lane* as his mistress has another...
...committee is headed by former Overseer John Nicholas Brown '22. Its Executive Secretary, who will write the final report, is Lane Faison, Jr., Chairman of the Art Department of Williams College. He said he would begin to write the report in February while on session duty at Williams...
...colored, and her neighbors stopped talking to her," explained one. In other cities, West Indians often were told on the telephone that they could have a room but were refused it when they arrived and the landlady saw the color of their skin. A tenant of an expensive Park Lane apartment arranged to sublet it to the young, Cambridge-educated Kabaka of Buganda, then was refused permission by the apartment owner. The Negro players of Anna Lucasta and Porgy and Bess had no trouble obtaining rooms in the best hotels. But when they settled down to a long...
Serving on the committee under Brown and Lane Faison, Jr., Chairman of the Art Department of Williams College; Dean Francis Keppel '33 of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, prominent stage designer and member of the staff of the Yale School of Drama; Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of the Arts at Yale University; Wolfang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College; George Wald, professor of Biology; and John Walker...