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Seniors will select eight finalists today and in a second election Wednesday elect their four marshals...
There were a hundred proposals for memorials to John Kennedy within a week of his assassination, but it soon became clear that the Kennedy Library on the banks of the Charles was to be the nation's principal monument to its 35th President. Kennedy himself had visited Harvard to select a site. The family, along with an advisory committee of artists and architects headed by William Walton, began the process of choosing an architect in the early months of last year...
...turned out that the cousin was indeed an authority on "dirty books;" she even helps select them for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As soon as she had all the details, she called the chairman and asked him to summon a meeting of the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, in order that it might consider the case of the notorious Fanny Hill, which is chock full of tales of sexual experiences...
...school must match the payment within three years-by raising $2 for every $1 of philanthropy in the case of Brown and $3 for every $1 in the case of richer U.S.C. and Brandeis. The rules were familiar. The trio had played the match game before, thus joining a select circle of two-time Ford grant winners...
...Lincoln Center rep company began compounding its errors from the outset. When it was set up nearly five years ago, the directors' first move was to go for Broadway brand names and select two of the best: Whitehead, producer of Bus Stop among other things, and Kazan, one of Broadway's most celebrated directors, who staged A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Arthur Miller, after eight years of silence as a playwright, offered his services, which at the time may have appeared to be a dividend...