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...kind of overcrowding—that of Harvard’s undergraduate drama spaces. “Apart from antiquated Sanders, Harvard still has no proper theatre. Student producers must make do with what space they can find: common rooms and dining halls, a museum courtyard, a disused swimming pool, even a roped off street,” the program wrote in promotional material. New York investment banker John L. Loeb ’24 contributed $1 million of the $1.5 million needed for the Loeb Drama Center, which opened in 1960. Four years later construction finished on the final...
...There was an upsurge of interest in drama in those years,” Stephen A. Aaron ’57 recalls. “Everybody was doing plays all over the place. They were done outside, in the Adams House swimming pool, in the Eliot House dining room. Everybody was putting plays in every possible place...
...addition to serving special groups of travelers, luxury properties are currently experimenting with the concept of butlers. The 375-room Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, in Miami Beach, Fla., offers sun worshippers a one-of-a-kind tanning butler. This employee circulates around the pool deck and beach Thursdays through Sundays during peak tanning hours, offering free sunscreen, cool water misters and eyeglass cleaners...
...nothing new, but how about ordering a sandwich from your poolside lounge chair without having to summon a waiter? The W Los Angeles will test a service in June that allows guests to place an order for food, drinks, late checkout or anything else via touch-screen technology on pool furniture. Once the order is placed, it is wirelessly transmitted to the desired destination and someone delivers the requested item right to the guest. "Having something take no effort at all is becoming the ultimate amenity to luxury travelers," Starwood's Klein says...
...protectively over the proceedings in Charlotte: Eisenhower, who asked Graham on his deathbed how you can know if you're going to heaven; Johnson, who invited Graham to the White House within weeks of taking office for an encounter that included both prayer and skinnydipping in the White House pool; even Nixon's ghost, come to honor the man he'd clearly loved, and deeply wounded...