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...people were surprised when the choice for President narrowed finally to two men from inside the University: Bok and John Dunlop. Indeed, as Corporation member Albert M. Nickerson '25 mused in November, it would take an outsider "three years to settle into the job, and by that time he could be hamstrung by the rapid pace of events...
...host of problems during his pursuit of Lolita, but they were nothing compared with those faced by the optimists intent on adapting Vladimir Nabokov's novel to the musical stage. Dropped as "too ripe" was Annette Ferra, 15 (TIME, March 1). Into the role went Denise Nickerson, 13, who opened as the nifty nymphet in Boston last week. "I can play a sexpot as well as anybody," she told an interviewer, but first-night critics had their reservations. Said one: "She smiles and speaks and sings like a sweet ten-year-old, and so when John Neville [the lead...
...library is being financed by a grant from the Afro-American Studies Fund which was set up by Albert L. Nickerson '33, a Fellow of Harvard College. It will eventually become part of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute which is planned as a research center for Afro-American Studies...
Leonard Frey as Quilty is too young, and he simply doesn't have Peter Sellers' comic talent. Dorothy Loudon as Mrs. Haze does a fairly good Shelley Winters imitation, but she overplays a part that is overwritten in the first place. Denise Nickerson as Lolita just can't project the sexual attraction of the nymphet, and can't sing either...
After one of the most elaborate and involved selection processes ever devised, it comes as no surprise that the five Fellows of the Corporation-two lawyers, two professors, and a retired New York businessman-would pick their candidate from inside the University. Corporation member Albert M. Nickerson expressed his fears early in November that it might take an outsider "three years to settle into the job, and by that time he could be hamstrung by the rapid pace of events...