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...opposed to the jokes, the music gets more pleasant upon each hearing. The few ballads have the only genuine distinction, however. They seemed to linger on after the rattle of the fast numbers had died away. The HDC has also censored itself, with the result that Great to Be Back! now is a family show. Except that one verse of "Mogambo Rag" has been lost, the clean-up served only to boost the entertainment value. Since there has been more cutting than adding, the whole evening is considerably shorter at Peabody this week. It is also much brighter...
Messrs. Teichmann and Kaufman have not confined their wit to one vein or aimed it at one specific target. Early in the evening, for example, they cast out a few promising barbs at the monopolistic tendencies of "free enterprise," but they choose not to linger here, and immediately move on to the subject of Senate investigations, and then to the foibles of the press, and from there to the proxy system of stock-voting. Meanwhile, they have thrown in such diverse gimmicks as a recorded narration, fairly-tale style, by Fred Allen; a slapstick routine of an executive doing...
Last week courageous Lady MacRobert, the last of the MacRoberts and Britain's most venerated wartime mother, died at 74, leaving behind her, as London's Daily Express wrote, "a legend to linger on as long as British youth takes to the skies...
...published, the Economics Department men read it, discuss it, and go ahead as they were planning to. The Overseers certainly have the power to investigate the College, but their conclusions can be adopted, ignored, or rejected. The procedures followed by the governing bodies of Harvard since the seventeenth century linger on, but the power within the College has shifted drastically over the years. What the Corporation, Overseers, Faculty, and Administration could do is quite different from what goes on in practice...
Housemaster David M. Little and his staff maintain informal and friendly relationships with the members of the House. At lunch and dinner, and sometimes even at breakfast, students and staff linger over coffee cup discussions in the paneled dining hall. Weekly, Dr. and Mrs. Little serve tea at Apthorp House, the historic Master's residence, and frequently entertain students at dinner...