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...Marvin F. Lazerson, assistant professor of Education, will be senior tutor of Currier House, which opens this Fall. "The job will be along the lines of a Harvard senior tuto-between a Radcliffe resident and a dean." Lazerson said yesterday. The other Radcliffe Houses have residents in each dormitory a non-resident Head (the equivalent of a House Master), and a non-resident dean...
Some of the episodes are already familiar: the mutiny led by Editor Clay Blair and Wall Street Investor Marvin Kantor against Culligan, which ended with all three walking the plank; the fling at "sophisticated muckraking," which ended in the Post's losing a $460,000 libel suit and some of its good reputation; the advent of Ackerman, who arrived like the U.S. Cavalry, complete with his own bugle call-"I am 36 years old, and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Co. rich again...
Boardwalk. Park Place. Ventnor and Atlantic Avenues, not to mention Marvin Gardens. The streets of Monopoly are places of childhood dreams and opportunity, open to anyone with the luck of the dice and a fat enough bankroll to buy there. But not Grosse Pointe and Shaker Heights, Bethesda, Georgetown and San Clemente. They are parts of a new and different game, one in which the color of a buyer's skin may well shut him out of the property he wants, and even drive him off the board...
...joke" by Ruth Berle. There was general dismay that neither Susannah York (They Shoot Horses) nor Dyan Cannon (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) had won. Some guests booed John Wayne's triumph as best actor for True Grit, but the sound had approving overtones. "----the Viet Cong," snarled Lee Marvin. "Get those yellow bastards, John," exhorted Laugh-In Producer Ed Friendly. "Tell us about America, John," chimed in Shirley MacLaine as the Duke wiped away a tear after receiving the first Oscar of his career...
...During Elizabeth Taylor's appearance on the screens, there were ribald comments about her cleavage, her saucer-sized diamond and her apparent fury over her husband Richard Burton's failure to win an Oscar for his performance in Anne of the Thousand Days. "Who is this?" asked Marvin. "She's grown up. I thought it was Shirley Temple Black." Comic Stanley Myron Handelman smirked: "She's got great elocution." But there was loud approval of her announcement of Midnight Cowboy as the best picture of the year...