Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monday Night Concert Series: Leonard Shure, pianist, at Sanders Theatre. Tickets available at Loeb Drama Center. There will be a concert every Monday until August...
...Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry, opens at Loeb Drama Center. It will be the first of four productions by Harvard Summer School Repertory Theatre. There will also be performances on July 11, 14, 17, 19, 22, 27, and August...
Before he delivered the Spencer Lecture last February, that great and good man of the theatre, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, noticed a casting poster for the HDC production of The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising. Turning to the Associate Professor of English who was shepherding him around the Loeb, Sir Tyrone is said to have asked, "Isn't that the new thriller about de Sade and a lot of French lunatics?" Told that Plebeians was a recent play by Gunter Grass about Brecht, he shook his head, informed sources report, and muttered, "Jumping Jesus. Well, it's good to know...
More activities became politicized at Harvard than ever before. As a result of the war in Vietnam and civil rights, even theatre and literature acquired increasingly political meaning. Writers and Loeb-wonks joined the protests and signed the "We Won't Go" petition, as the draft threatened to puncture the protective walls of the University...
Fighting the Giants. As weaker operators began to fall out during tortuous negotiations, a consortium consisting of Armour & Co., Continental Oil, and Loeb, Rhoades & Co., and headed by former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, soon emerged as the leading contender. Anderson was a steady visitor to Spain, even won an audience with Franco. Then, last November, Continental Oil pulled out of the Anderson consortium, and all its hopes were wrecked. A new group, including Gulf Oil, W.R. Grace, Texaco, and Standard Oil of Calif., entered the race with a combined bid. I.M.C. was left to fight it out with the quartet...