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...Telemeter set owners. Some of their comments: Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler-"It's fine if we get paid. If movies are going to wind up on TV screens, I don't want to have a picture interrupted to talk about soap." Director Mervyn (Quo Vadis) LeRoy- "Telemeter is great. If a picture is worth seeing, it's worth paying for. If the payment is right, it can be great for the picture business...
Take the Academic Festival Overture, for instance. Brahms' genial medley of college songs may sound at times like a Germanic version of Leroy Anderson, but the orchestra played it with the concentration of the B.S.O. and the spirit of the Harvard Band. The many sudden dynamic changes and tricky syncopated passages could be disastrous for an amateur group, but, thanks to arduous rehearsing and Burgin's unmistakable beat, the errors were few and minor. The strings, particularly in the quieter measures, showed a lightness and precision that had been missing for the past four the past four seasons...
...body of Mrs. Phyllis Lorimer Leroy, 44, has not been recovered...
...Leroy, in Africa for research on her doctorate thesis for a Radcliffe degree, was on a sight seeing tour, when apparently she lost balance and fell over into the falls. According to reports, the sot where she fell is 354 feet high...
...republican principle, in good health, intelligent and tactful, not too young or too old, with an exemplary family. "He must be a good enough shot to avoid any diplomatic incidents when he takes visiting royalty out hunting," one wag specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive le roi!' as he goes by." He should also be gregarious: "We can't have a bear who likes to lock himself up in his toilet alone and smoke his pipe...