Word: lee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil War temporarily ended the Southern experiment in Eastern education. No longer did a John Calhoun enroll at Yale, or the son of Robert E. Lee study in Cambridge. While bitterness has passed with the years, the South still remains in half-isolation from national main currents of education. And for schools such as Harvard, interested in a diversified student body, the problem still remains of one breaking through the barrier...
Like its Broadway predecessor, the new movie called Tea and Sympathy concerns a prep school housemaster and his wife and a student whose name is Tom Lee. Both tell of the suffering felt especially by these three when the boy is accused homosexuality. But the resemblance doesn't go too far. The people who adapted the play to the screen--including Robert Anderson, the playwright and now the script writer--have succeeded in making the prejudices which victimized the boy appear ridiculous. The result of their diligence is a movie that is limited by this intention. The film is uncomfortable...
Judging from last year's performances, top men for the senior-less UMass team are juniors Lee Chisholm and Tom Flynn, and sophomores Don Madara and Erik Dahl. The two juniors placed high in the New England Championships last fall, while Dahl defeated Jim Schlaeppi, last year's number one Yardling, when the two met as freshmen. Madara finished second against Williams...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Sauce for the Goose, with Gypsy Rose Lee...
...picture, for which the three Broadway leads have been retained, follows the play almost scene for scene. Tom Lee (John Kerr), the 17-year-old son of divorced parents, is a student at a New England prep school. On a campus where every red-blooded boy is expected to go out for one team or another, Tom is regarded by his schoolmates as an "off-horse." He doesn't like football or baseball. He is quiet and gentle, reads poetry, listens to classical music. One day two schoolmates see him sitting on the beach with several faculty wives, sewing...