Word: robert
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Phillips Brooks House announced the election of three new officers for 1959-1960 last night. Robert R. Little '60, of Lowell House and Penfield, N.Y., was chosen president; Sheldon Greenfield '60, of Leverett House and Cincinnati, Ohio, first vice-president; and Stephen R. Crespin '60, of Dunster House and Cincinnati, Ohio, second vice-president...
Language was not the only trouble. The story itself seemed dated. When the book was published in 1940, Hemingway hardly had to explain why a teacher of Spanish from Montana would give up everything to fight in Spain. But today Robert Jordan, even in the hands of as good an actor as Jason Robards Jr., is hardly more than a cliché cut out of old newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael...
...Maria Schell, talking of the love affair with Robert Jordan, who came closest to summing up. "Frankly," said she, "I doubt whether real life could maintain that relationship." Even though the second half this week may be better, it is doubtful whether TV's For Whom the Bell Tolls can maintain that relationship either...
Week after week, Astrue won. Housewives, journalists, college professors-he beat them all. He did not miss too many of his tough questions and made the most of his share of the snaps. M.C. Bill Wendell asked him if it was true that Robert Hutchins was once chancellor of the University of Chicago. What are the ingredients of a martini? His opponents went down on such questions as: What city, once known as San Francisco's bedroom, is the third largest city in California? What two states at what dates came into the U.S. before Alaska...
...Attack." The indictment caused a wince of pain from the department because the trustbusters had begun their campaign against the highly regarded International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and not against some out-of-favor union such as Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters. But First Assistant Antitrust Chief Robert Bicks said: "It would be a perversion of our function to discriminate between 'good' and 'bad' unions. The question is whether unions are violating the Sherman Act." I.L.G.W.U. President David Dubinsky, who has fought hard and with distinction against sweatshop operators and racketeers in the garment...