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...committee met periodically that winter, and hoped to report back to the Faculty during the spring of 1961. But differences of opinion sprang up, and in fall the committee was still meeting. During January and February, several of the members who felt strongly one way or the other about expansion exchanged written drafts explaining their views, but since "no one seemed to be persuading anyone" McCloskey decided that the best course would be to throw the question before the Faculty for general discussion...
...Well, here you are," he exclaimed in the fluid tones of the Via Veneto and then sprang lightly toward me, proffering a loosely-packed Nazionale. "You want to know about my career as film importer, yes?" queried the elegant Roman as he pointed to a chair and chose for himself the corner of the bed. "My great love for the film started when I was child, in the days before projectors had motors. Every Saturday I would go to the theater near my house and help them rewind, for hours...
...Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said, "No" when she proffered a daffodil...
...Gypsy Rose Lee, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and John Wilkes Booth. During more than a century, it was used for religious revivals, legitimate theater, vaudeville, burlesque--even as a factory. When the end of the Howard was too close to be averted, the Howard National Theater and Museum Committee sprang up to preserve it. The Committee said the Howard could be renovated, and, converted into a museum and restaurant, made self-sustaining...
...midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious newspaper." On the Ramparts. To Philip's immediate defense sprang the Conservative Member of Parliament from Solihull, Sir Martin Lindsay. A sheaf of papers in his hand and blood in his eye, Sir Martin accused the Beaverbrook papers of conducting "a sustained vendetta" against Britain's royal family, moved that the House of Commons censure Lord Beaverbrook for "authorizing over...