Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John L. Loeb '24, New York investment broker, has given the University one million dollars for the construction of a new Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre. An additional $500,000 is needed to complete the financing of the proposed construction...
...Loeb gift comes at a time when interest in drama has reached a new high in the College. The past year has seen a total of 45 student productions on the stages of Sanders Theatre, Agassiz, and various House dining halls. The works ran the theatrical gamut from tragedy to comedy, and from such standard theatre fare as Shaw and Shakespeare to the rarely performed works of Strindberg and Genet...
Upon receiving the Loeb gift, President Pusey called for an immediate start in securing designs for a building which will contain the specifications mentioned above. It is understood that this will involve some type of competition between various architects interested in the building...
...most New Hampshire Republicans -and many others who have sampled Loeb's sometimes neuro-individualistic politics-reactionary is too mild a label for balding, black-eyed Bill Loeb. "What New England needs," he argues, "is the two-party system." In New Hampshire and Vermont (where he owns the Burlington News and St. Albans Messenger) he has frequently supported Democrats for state office. When Republican Governor Lane Dwinell announced this month that he would never again give a statement to Loeb's Manchester Sunday News, the publisher chortled: "That's par for the course...
Publisher Loeb's combative instincts have also resulted in some notable crusades by the Union Leader. In 1955, for example, when lawmakers opposed an increase of the state's share of pari-mutuel receipts, the paper printed the names of 42 legislators who were on a racetrack payroll. But Loeb himself derives his keenest joy from an editorial page that ranges acrimoniously from "gulliberals" to Detroit ("overgrown, overdecorated, over-expensive U.S. cars"). "Newspapers," he maintains, "should be run for fun. not profit." From the Manchester Union Leader Publisher Loeb gets both...