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Shepley (1954-60), now chairman of the board of directors. Both men gave Washington a name for academic freedom, added luster to its faculty and first-rate medical school. Eliot's job is to bring the main 165-acre campus up to the standards of the medical school, which has harbored nearly all of Washington's six Nobel prizewinners, gets much of the income from the university's $100 million endowment...
...Borrowed Luster. To advertise his new musical, Subways Are for Sleeping, Merrick stacked up one above another the names of Manhattan's seven daily-newspaper critics, and in huge block letters proclaimed that 7 OUT OF 7 ARE ECSTATICALLY UNANIMOUS ABOUT "SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING." Beside each name was a quote. Walter Kerr, for example: "What a show! What a hit! What a solid hit! If you want to be overjoyed, spend an evening with Subways Are for Sleeping. A triumph." Howard Taubman: "One of the few great musical comedies of the last 30 years, one of the best...
...monasteries will try almost anything that seems likely to help provide for the time and opportunity to pray. Famed since the 12th century for their farming prowess, the Trappists have added new luster to the order's reputation through the assortment of cheese, jams, breads and cured hams they sell to supermarkets. Better known as teachers than farmers, U.S. Benedictines operate more than 50 seminaries, colleges and high schools, many (such as the Portsmouth Priory School near Newport, R.I.) with national reputations. Monasteries make ends meet through a variety of self-sustaining work: one abbey in Indiana...
Scofield, Pleasence and Campbell only begin the list of British actors who seem to be taking over the U.S. stage. Sir Michael Redgrave lends luster to Graham Greene's otherwise mediocre The Complaisant Lover. John Mills is arriving this month in Ross, Terence Rattigan's play about Lawrence of Arabia, and Eric (Separate Tables) Portman is headed again for Broadway in an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India...
Despite a lack-luster record (2 and 2 in the Ivy League), Penn has made steady improvement over a dismal beginning. Perennially a late-bloomer in the Ivy League, the Quakers have won their last two League games, and Munro rates them a "very definite threat" to Harvard's undefeated Ivy League record...