Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HOWARD MAYER BROWN '51, teaching fellow in Music and Lowell House tutor, will beat out the rhythm of the bells on a weekly basis. Brown plays the bells without aid of written music, but has two husky helpers to swing the clapper of the big bell...
Several weeks ago an envious colleague sent John F. Enders, associate Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at the Medical School, a photograph of Sweden's only lady mayer shown sun-bathing on the beach of her municipality a few miles outside Stockholm. Enders kept it on his desk to remind himself that he had an important engagement with another official of Sweden in Stockholm today...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is so phoney it hurts. In its return to the Continent from campaigns on the Italian peninsula Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...
...sketchbook, and raced off to the Hasty Pudding, where they had the red carpet rolled all the way up to the Hayes-Bickford trash cans. Presently a thirty-foot Harvard limousine with flying bridge and machine guns drew unobtrusively to the curb, and a crowd of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity agents piled out and began shaking hands...
...Organist Mayer is a slight, white-married little old man who trots about West Point as if he owned it, lovingly patting each cannon. He can still set the "battle-thunder" stop and play his rousing "military paraphrase" on the West Point Alma Mater, which is a whole musical war, including artillery, heavy bombers and bugles. But Mayer's own losing battle is with the hard facts of Government service. "I sometimes wonder," he reflects on his past, "how an artist came to spend his entire life on a military post...