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...backers of this bill probably thought they were voting to put religion back in the schools," he notes. "But I don't know if they knew they were voting to put in my peace workers." Says Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob, who last year ruled in favor of an A.C.L.U. challenge to religious meetings that were being held in a suburban Atlanta junior high school: "The bill will create more problems than it solves. I expect to see a rash of lawsuits...
...years ago, the National Theater poached on Broadway turf with a vivid revival of Guys and Dolls that is still running in repertory. Less successful have been efforts by the company's director, Sir Peter Hall, to stage original, serious musical works. Last winter his collaboration with Composer Marvin Hamlisch on a dirge about Jean Seberg, in which the actress was seriously compared with Joan of Arc, fizzled at the stake. Now Sir Peter has devised an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. As in Jean Seberg, masks abound, with the actors simulating Orwell's heroic...
...hours after the late Alfred Bloomingdale's notorious mistress, Vicki Morgan, 30, was murdered last year, her roommate, Marvin Pancoast, walked into a nearby police station and confessed. The homosexual Hollywood hanger-on, who had moved in with Morgan after she lost a $5 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale two years ago, said he had bludgeoned her with her son's baseball bat to "help her sleep." But when his trial opened last month, Pancoast, 34, pleaded not guilty. His lawyers accused unknown persons of killing Morgan to suppress videotapes that allegedly showed her having sex not only...
Perhaps two dozen or more longtime managers, editors and writers could become instant millionaires when the transaction is approved by the staff and the Labor Department. Editor Marvin Stone, 60, and Managing Editor Lester Tanzer, 54, will each collect about $5 million; employees such as Circulation Clerk Evelyn Fox (43 years seniority) and Chauffeur Obadiah Person (39 years) will collect $400,000 or more...
...Marvin Appel '84, his thesis lab work on mouse leukemia cells was the highlight of his academic career at Harvard. "It makes you think and see science as it really is," he says of the hands-on experience. "Lectures tend to be reduced to more simplicity than it really is." Appel will enter the Medical School next year for a combined Ph.D./Md. program and intends to go into non-laboratory physiological research after graduation...