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...revival of the storied readings was initiated by Robert C. Seaver '50, member of the Network Production Board, while the recording was made by Technical Director John R. McGrew...
...Goldberg '48, president of the Crimson Network, announced that plans for a forthcoming competition, to be presented later, were discussed at the first meeting last night. John R. McGrew '45 of Leverett House was elected technical director, and Andrew R. Baggaley '45 of Lowell House as acting program director during the meeting in the Dudley Hall studies...
...sprawling territory, twice the size of Texas, which the U.S. acquired from Russia in a forgotten real-estate deal; 2) the site of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley (20,464 feet); 3) home ground of Robert Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush...
...line popped into my mind: A bunch of the boys were whooping it up, and it stuck there." That night, in the teller's cage of the bank, Service wrote his famed Shooting of Dan McGrew aided by the bank guard who fired at him, under the impression that he was a burglar...
...month later, walking home from a party in the moonlight, a new line came to him: "There are strange things done in the midnight sun. . . . Though I did not know it [The Cremation of Sam McGee] was to be the keystone of my success." For more than a year "McGrew" and "McGee" lay with a sheaf of other manuscripts among Service's shirts. At last his "author complex" drove him to send them off to a publisher with oo to pay for 104 their private printing. The composing-room crew, who set up the ringing, romping lines in type...