Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House was opened in 1931, with Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, as Master. Hoadley succeeded him as Master in 1941. Murdock will be unable to attend the celebration, since he is at present on a leave of absence in Switzerland...
TONY VEHE Gstaad, Switzerland...
...audiences to the Y.M.H.A.'s Kaufmann Auditorium. This season the series has expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although Polikoff has scheduled more American than foreign works, this week he is offering a selection of contemporary music from Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Impresario Polikoff also invites the composers being played to come and defend their music in open forum. Among those who have accepted so far this season: Roger Sessions, Luigi Dallapiccola, Carl Ruggles...
...Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright red tie to his uniform), hitchhiked 4,000 miles around Europe, swum near Barcelona and skied in Switzerland. Says a friend: "He has never wanted for girls. They're usually attractive and not intellectual fireballs." Charlie can even cook. His specialty: chicken pilaff...
This week, Minou was back in Paris after a triumphal tour of Switzerland and Italy. Along the way, she had been the star of a poetry festival in Taormina and had an audience with the Pope. Said Minou to His Holiness: "I have gone into many churches looking for God, but all I find are stained-glass windows and pillars." It is not recorded what the Pope replied to this, but later he asked the poet for a copy of her book. Whereupon Minou asked archly, "Haven't you read it yet?", and promised to send...