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...Mason said the university will allow the investments to expire and will most likely invest in U.S. Treasury bills or in banks that are not active internationally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Will Sell $6.6 Million Of South African Investments | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

...Baily Mason, Chairman of the B.U. trustees' Investment Advisory Committee and special assistant to the president, said last night the trustees decided to "phase-out" their non-voting bank deposits and bonds because these holdings "do not offer the university sufficient leverage on corporate practices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Will Sell $6.6 Million Of South African Investments | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

Three years later, while Mason was searching for the source of Brazil's Iriri River, he was clubbed to death by Kreen-Akarores Indians, who had learned to fear and hate strangers. As tragic as his friend's death was, it was also something of an awakening for Hanbury-Tenison. He went adventuring again, but soon found it pointless. He bought 600 acres of pasture land and moors in Cornwall, England, but saw little reward in the life of a country squire. Convinced he should help the tribal people he had seen, he joined in 1969 with Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Struggle for Survival | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

This play is literate, wise, perceptive, humane and wryly humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Touch and Go | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Friel uses faith healing as a resonant metaphor of the artist and his gift, the mystery of how the muse inspires, deserts and sometimes destroys its own. Friel leaves the subject as murky as he found it, but his actors are luminous. Returning to Broadway after 32 years, Mason is a necromancer at his craft. His real-life wife, Clarissa Kaye, seems like a Mother Courage on loan, and Donnelly is a mischievous imp dressed in the motley philosophy of show biz. Faith healers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Touch and Go | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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