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...presented in the commercial theater. As William Morris Hunt '36, one of the chief organizers of the Festival, says, "We want to produce plays which are too little known outside of professional circles and give them a stage performance under the most favorable circumstances." Hunt defines classical drama to mean "plays of any period which may be considered landmarks of dramatic literature...
...uses "Cheers" when at "ritzy houses just to watch the horrified looks I get." Complained three aristocratic ladies, including a daughter of Lord Kilmuir: "We all come from what we thought were U families, but ... we all say 'mantlepiece' and have sugar in our coffee. Does this mean that we must change our classification?" On the contrary, said Sir Robert Boothby. In order to achieve a really classless society, "we must all become U as quickly as possible." But can the non-U speaker ever become U? For the answer to that, Britain had to turn back...
...survey shows that: "Incomes of the high honors graduates of the last 30 years are high. The median with students, housewives, and soldiers eliminated, is $11,227, and the arithmetic mean (income total divided by the number of income recipients...
Harris calls this figure "surprisingly high" considering that the graduates questioned are out of college (weighted mean) only 13 years, and that the proportion in the professions, where incomes are relatively low compared to business, is large...
...larger number in the professions pulls down the average income of our group," Harris continues. "Thus, for the 114 in the professions the mean income is $11,567 and the median, $9,663; for the 57 others (business executives and the like), the respective figures are $21,557 and $17,142, or about twice as high as in the professions...