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...SUMNER REDSTONE knew he mustn't let them think him flustered. Christ, he thought to himself, no wonder Pusey's throwing in the towel. For every time Sumner managed another sentence, the crowd before him roared with laughter. For the life of him, Sumner just couldn't understand it. Was this then what Harvard had come to? Sumner could feel himself beginning to sweat. If there were only some way of short-circuiting the laughter, of turning it against itself. But Sumner could see no way out, and just kept on plowing headlong through the introductory remarks that had been...
...throwing abandon to the winds-as Segal himself might phrase it-Sumner Redstone, class of '44 and head of Boston's Redstone Showcase Theatres, announced that on the ever-after-to-be-memorable night of December 18 the Circle Theatre's usually scheduled performances of Catch-22 would be cancelled in order that Paramount could bring in a private screening of Love Story -opening December 25 at the same theatre, lest anyone forget. Accordingly, invitations went out to the Harvard hockey team, virtually everyone on the payroll of the Department of Athletics, as many of the Harvard extras as Paramount...
Meanwhile, Sumner Redstone. loyal alumnus that he is, was getting ready to do his little bit as he once more rehearsed his speech, while his wife struggled into the purple velvet knickers in which she would greet all those personal friends, friends from Newton and Brookline and Needham Heights that had been thoughtfully given a chance to see Mr. Redstone at his absolutely finest hour...
...Sumner Redstone to know? After all, these were Harvard men, weren't they? And, having that speech on his mind, he could hardly be expected to notice the J-V gang that had collected up on the second level of the lobby where they were grabbing whole bottles of the stuff from under the eyes of the pleading hostesses...
Died. Cid Ricketts Sumner, 80, Mississippi-born author of the endearing Tammy series of books about a Southern bayou waif, and mother-in-law of Author John H. Cutler (Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Honey Fitz) whose 16-year-old son was arraigned in juvenile court as a suspect in her bludgeon murder; at her Duxbury, Mass., home...