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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year the Unitarians found themselves a house more than usually divided: the board's selection of a skilled administrator in onetime Executive Vice President Ernest W. Kuebler, 54, met opposition from those who wanted a representative of the more spiritual side of Unitarianism-especially in view of recent hot debates over whether Unitarians should break with the Christian tradition...
...growth has come in the open-end funds, whose assets total $9.5 billion (see chart). They are so big that some Wall Streeters fear that a wave of redemptions from worried investors might force a market break. But in all the recent sharp market breaks, the funds have bought, not sold, and thus given stability to the market. Recently the funds, thinking the market too high, were cautious about buying; of the 15 largest funds, twelve reduced their percentage of common-stock holdings in the first quarter...
...fall means football and 1957 will be remembered as the year that voracious sports columnists called for President Pusey's, Tom Bolles', and John Yovicsin's blood after the 54 to 0 loss against Yale. The eleven's 3 and 5 record has been worse in recent years, but an eight touchdown loss to the Eli effectively ruins any season. Few Harvard fans will ever remember without a shudder the spectre of Dick Winterbauer cocking his arm in the direction of the Crimson goal line for one of his numerous touchdown passes. It must be remembered, however, that the game...
...proves the point that sex is an excellent subject for art and comedy without having to be crude or blatantly erotic. Although it is, really, all about sex, it has none of the relatively clumsy Hollywood eroticism of the writhing Presley genre, or even of recent French letdowns, such as And God Created Woman...
...recent years Colman led a squirely life in the Santa Barbara hills. With his actress wife Benita Hume he did a radio-and-TV comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and Powell last week to escort Benita Hume Colman and the Colmans' only child, Juliet, to the funeral of Ronald Colman, dead of a lung infection...