Word: medford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sayre had requested earlier this week that he be allowed to appear personally before the Executive Committee as the next step in his fight for tenure at the Medford campus...
...victim last year was a left-handed fastballer named Miles Nogelo, and he too is likely to be on the scene in Medford today. At Kindlestick Park last year, Nogelo issued seven walks and disappeared when the Crimson won the game with a three-run rally in the eighth...
According to the Tufts Trustees' Bylaws, the maximum probation period before tenure is six years, and Sayre has been at the Medford campus since 1957. The administration, however, based its action on a sliding scale of tenure explained in the Faculty Handbook. Under these rules, Sayre would have to undergo a seven-year probation period since his arrival at Tufts as an assistant professor, the title he still holds. But the Trustees have never offically approved the sliding-scale guidelines...
...surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than shoving, and her chopped-liver-on-wry dialogue is a deadpan delight. And Danny Meehan, as Fanny's unrequited lover and faithful friend, makes a dreary role cheery just by standing on his head to whistle. Sydney Chaplin has a cheerlessly unwritten part...
Hitchcock deserves his award. The Busy Martyr is welcome relief from much of the insipid summer fare often presented at straw hat theaters, and is well worth a trip to Medford...