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...Yale faculty to leave their teaching posts and write for a year without any reduction in salary. Griswold is convinced that rearch is essential to good teaching. "I see no fundamental conflict between the two, as those who carelessly use the phrase 'publish or perish' seem to. You become mellow, pipe-smoking, and tweedy if you don't have the galvanic influence of original scholarship...
Hoagy will leave the Copley Plaza between shows and will probably arrive at Lowell around 9:30 p.m. for an hour's stay. Robert L. Witey, Jr. '52, member of the Lowell House Committee, said, "We're giving Lowell men a half hour head start on the beer to mellow them...
...20th Century-Fox) proves that age can mellow a song while simply mildewing a musicomedy plot. The picture is agreeable enough as a reprise of a dozen tunes that were popular ten years ago, but its account of the professional and romantic ups & downs of two struggling song publishers is a story that has grown old gracelessly...
Testy old (71) Sir Thomas Beecham was in a mellow mood. With the 105 members of his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he had cleared the brambles of the U.S.'s new Security Act without a scratch, while German and Italian musicians were having a time of it. (Said Sir Thomas blandly: "We're all British, thank God.") There was a deeper reason for his satisfaction: he was set to face U.S. audiences with an orchestra of his own-an enterprise "I have undertaken in a becoming spirit of modesty and humility." In fact, beamed Sir Thomas, he had come...
Back in Boston for the first time since she declared war on Harvard ten years ago when the Lampoon voted her the movie star least likely to succeed, onetime Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan was in a mellow, forgiving mood. "I'm not worried any more about what Harvard University thinks of me ... By the way whatever happened to that editor? It would be interesting to know what he is doing...