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...music, both Samuel Barber and Carlos Chavez, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, are strong candidates, and in the money-raising department--known officially as distinguished service to the University--H. Irving Pratt '26, the new Program Director, and a number of big givers are in the running...
Other pieces in the magazine are by Elinor Hughes, who is Boston's own Hedda Hopper, Elliot Norton of Hearst's Daily Record, William Van-Lennep, Joel Henning, and the editors. The latter's attack on CRIMSON drama criticism fails to slay a dragon that is probably much easier prey than The Advocate, unaccountably, estimates. Apart from its misrepresentation and misquotation, the essay is inoffensive to the Plympton Street conscience. It is more offensive to the community conscience, however, for it warns people not to believe everything they read in the papers. Not even newspapermen ask readers to do that...
...last visit to Harvard was in 1956, when he gave the Charles Norton Eliot Lectures (or non-lectures, as he preferred to call them). They described his early life, his education at Harvard, and certain of his views on aesthetics and modern poetry...
...pushing Norton Sound at 95% of full power, even through the iceberg-menaced waters around Cape Horn, Captain Gralla reached the South Atlantic rendezvous three days ahead of schedule. Picking up first the Falkland Islands and then Tarawa on radar, he radioed a signal: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Replied Admiral Mustin from the carrier: "Greetings from 3,000 shellbacks." Back came Gralla: "Six hundred and fifty horned shellbacks are ready to shoot...
Captain Gralla and his crew spectacularly beat the odds. The weather was foul for all three shots-in the third, Norton Sound was hidden from her escorts by a snowstorm-but the rocketmanship and the seamanship were superb. Each countdown, with 60 Navy and civilian technicians briskly at work, took six hours. Minutes before firing, rocketmen removed the heated blanket draped around the bird to keep electrical relays from freezing up. Then they took cover, while the firing officer waited until the ship was at the right degree of pitch and roll to enable the rocket...