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Somewhat eclipsed by the theatrical spotlight, and winding up on Thursday a two week session of pondering social issues is the 12-year old Wellesley Institute for Social Progress, with an enrollment of 200 quartered in Claftin, Severance, and Pomeroy Halls...
...Spotlight. When Harold Stassen appeared in Jefferson, Iowa last week, for his first big foreign-policy speech since returning from abroad, the pros were listening carefully. His main points: the U.S. should devote 10% of its national production for the next ten years to the systematic rebuilding of the world; the U.S. would be repaid in needed raw materials and in the stability it was now trying to create piecemeal...
Friday night's Cabaret Dance transformed Mem Hall's elephantine West Room into a conglomeration of jammed night-club-like tables, but order was temporarily installed when Bob Ashenhurat '50's "Jubilee Day" show held the Spotlight. Here pre-dance romantic difficulties were put to words and music for an audience with some preoccupations...
According to the Boston Fireman's Band, marathoner Yun Bok Su wasn't the only foreigner to steal the local spotlight at Boston's Patriots Day celebrations. Traditional parade performers, the fireman's band smouldered with rage when the University music-makers got George Curley...
...Fred came home, joined the Army, entertained in camps. After the war he took the name of an actors' agent, broke into the Keith circuit as Fred Allen, touring with the likes of Sophie Tucker, Eva Tanguay, Rooney & Bent. His act began on a dark stage with a spotlight on a placard, reading: "Mr. Allen Is Quite Deaf. If You Care to Applaud, Please Do So Loudly." His suit, he confided to the audience, had been made in Jersey City-"I'm a bigger man there than I am here...