Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew to the Olympic trials at Syracuse at the end of June. Meanwhile, two graduates and a sophomore will represent the Crimson at the competition. Sophomore Bart Thomas and Randy Seed '54, on leave from the Army, will compete in the singles event. Louis McCagg '52 will probably row in a double scull...
After making his way to a literary luncheon in Chicago, seamy-side-of-life Novelist Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren (see BOOKS) deplored authors whose prissy works ignore "the back rooms and gutters." Resolutely sticking to his conviction that Skid Row makes the choicest book fodder, Chicago Slum Runner Algren heartily stabbed at two contemporary upper-middle-class protagonists: "If Marjorie Morningstar and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit were being married on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't go to the wedding...
...petty crime and drug addiction that shocked many a queasy reader, but it was so firmly rimmed by compassion and understanding that no one could doubt its literary worth. His new one, A Walk on the Wild Side, reinforces his right to the title of poet laureate of Skid Row, but just as Novelist Algren had to find a new publisher to bring it out, so his old admirers have to reconsider their admiration. They may well wonder if his sympathy for the depraved and degraded has not carried him to the edge of nonsense...
Hunt and the other directors of the Festival believe they can both please.6Members of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Drama Festival, Ince. From left to right, back row: Robert H. Chapman, assistant professor of English, and Eliot L. Richardson '41, a Boston attorney; middle row: Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English and Comparative Literature, Perry T. Rathbone '33, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, and William Morris Hunt '36; front row: Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, and Mildred M. Jaffe...
...Chicago wire-service veteran, "walks with a stoop-the TV hunch. Any time he straightens up, some TV man screams at him to get out of the picture." John Drieske, the Chicago Sun-Times political expert, was once asked by a TV man to move from his front-row seat at a news conference. Drieske was wearing a white shirt, the man explained, and a colored one would look better. Even when the reporters get their own conference, they can feel the TV sting. After Stevenson's Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting for TV to finish shooting...