Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year, at least, the course of Harvard drama seems clear. The HDC has announced Murder in the Cathedral for its third production, and after a seasonal curtain raiser of MacLeish, the Poets' Theatre is launched into Yeats. Evidently this will not be another season featuring the drama of Shakespeare and the wit of Noel Coward...
After a month of daily practice and a successful 62 to 48 dress rehearsal scrimmage against M.I.T. Wednesday, the cast of "Old Faces of 1953-54" is tensely awaiting its opening night; a quintet of critics from Boston University will do the judging at the Blockhouse curtain-raiser this evening...
Braaten writes from Madrid, "I couldn't figure out any other way to get an egghead, a figurehead, and a hardheaded fund-raiser into the same cartoon. If this looks as though it were done between trains in a dingy Bilbao hotel room lit by a single naked bulb, it's because it was. Of course, it would have looked the same if it had been done in a north-lighted studio overlooking the Seine, but a guy has to have some excuse...
...announcement was something of a personal triumph for Cornu. A little over a year ago he asked the government to put up 5 billion francs (close to $15 million) for the five-year reconstruction job. The government would only promise 365 million francs a year, so Cornu turned fund-raiser himself. Soon the money was pouring in. Movie stars raised 30 million raffling off cars at a Paris auto show, the state-run casino at suburban Enghien signed up for 30 million a year, the French National Lottery promised another 400 million a year. From all over France donations came...
...million corporation, the president of Harvard cannot often concern himself no directly with faculty affairs. The University's problems often resolve into financial once, and over the years Conant has become a wise and even a bit cynical about the whole problem. No hand shaking fund-raiser himself, he greatly appreciated the need for such...