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Group II. Into this unpromising assemblage-thanks in part to the presence of ill-starred Star Tallulah Bankhead and Co-Producer Roger Stevens-falls Midgie Purvis, a comedy by Mary (Harvey) Chase. Similarly tainted: Rhinoceros, which combines previously unsuccessful Producer Leo Kerz and unpredictable (three for seven) Director Joseph Anthony with an unknown commercial quantity, Playwright Eugene Ionesco...
...surprise announcement Pusey makes Seymour Harris Dean of the Faculty. Harris promises 'bold, aggressive action" within a hundred days.... In another surprise move Leo Durocher is appointed varsity football coach. "I know it's a bit bizarre," says athletic director Bolles, "but Leo is our type of fellow." ...Ted Halaby is the quarterback, as the varsity football team loses its opener.... An HDC member dissatisfied with the fall roster of plays blows up the Loeb Drama Center. Dean Harris says it will not be rebuilt, but will instead serve as a playground for the newly established Harvard Nursery School...
...customer. With only 2% of U.S. aluminum output, Lawrence Harvey has to scramble fast to compete against the giants. He grabbed his telephone, learned the contract had indeed been agreed upon, but was not yet signed. He summoned a family conference in the company's executive suite: Father Leo M. Harvey, 75, company president; Uncle Herbert Harvey, 65, engineering vice president; and Brother Homer M. Harvey, 36, administrative vice president. Together they quickly decided what price they could offer the buyer. By that afternoon the deal was signed-with Harvey Aluminum, not the competitor...
...Family Went Along. Harvey Aluminum is an outgrowth of the Harvey Machine Co., which was founded by Leo Harvey in Los Angeles in 1914. At the start, it made everything from corsage pins to racing cars. Later it turned to making special machinery, and by World War II was the biggest such manufacturer on the West Coast. Young Lawrence had learned metalworking on vacations in his father's shop, had rushed through the University of Southern California, the California bar exams and Harvard Business School by the time he was 22. In 1946 he cut loose from the family...
...FALL DOWN, by James Leo Herlihy. An odd-lot family and a trusting girl direct their love toward a big brother and lover who pays them back in evil coin. The boy hero is the symbol of all deceived childhood, and the author ranges from the wretchedly seedy to the near lyrical with authority and originality...