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...sources, and seeing the paper through the press. (Printing was done alternately at the Riverside Press and John Wilson & Sons, in Cambridge.) Periodically, meetings of the staff were called by the President, who would hang The Crimson shingle from an iron bar on the side of University Hall to summon editors to his room that evening...
Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach) is a model of the kind of controlled frenzy that many older and more experienced actors never master. Nell Potts (daughter of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) has a vulnerability and translucent beauty that summon up memories of the young Elizabeth Taylor. Her father directed quite nicely...
...began on Oct. 21 in Room 4714 of the 47th Division barracks. One of two plebes who occupy the room said that he awoke to see a life-sized apparition of a 19th century officer emerge from a wall. The vision receded before the plebe could summon his roommate. The next night both saw the ghost. The story eventually reached the ears of Cadet Captain Keith Bakken. He and another upperclassman commandeered the room a few days later. The ghost promptly appeared before Bakken's confederate, but receded into the wall again. Bakken, who is still a firm nonbeliever...
Edward Herrmann (looking like a youthful Charles de Gaulle), Maadelon Thomas and John Tillinger are all entertaining and splendidly idiosyncratic as members of the household's younger generation. As the Barbara of the title, Jane Alexander is appealing enough; but she does not summon up sufficient ardor and commitment to offset her father, so that the play is thrown slightly off balance...
...gunshots of May 15 ring out a few more notes in the swan song of democracy, I should think that both of the major parties' candidates would, if only for their own protection, summon the courage to stand up to the adherents of gun ownership and make meaningful federal gun control an issue in their respective campaigns...