Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the five-minute colloquy in a Los Angeles court ended, the 3½-year marriage of Cineminx Debbie Reynolds and Crooner Eddie Fisher was over. Except for the property settlement and alimony. Eddie was free, although under California law he may not marry the other woman, Actress Elizabeth Taylor, until the divorce becomes final after a year. But freedom's price was high. Debbie kept: a Palm Springs ranch, seven life insurance policies, three bank accounts, a Lincoln, the family camping equipment, a Jeep equipped for uranium prospecting, title to their $125,000 West Los Angeles home...
...course, many highly worthwhile people do not sport "big names." But, according to Master Taylor, "if a man is not well-known, busy students may ignore him--no matter how valuable he may be--and the visit will be a failure." Occasionally, however, an "informal teacher" (such as Nadia Boulanger, who visited Adams) is a great success. "We try to have visitations, not public lectures," explained Master Brower...
...many Houses, tutor-student dinners have won enthusiastic praise. At Kirkland, for example, seven undergraduates and three tutors get together over sherry and a served meal in the private dining room. These small area dinners offer "another line of faculty-student communication," said Taylor, "and they give us a lot for our money...
...addition, some Houses use the funds for more unusual purposes. Dudley sends a commuting student abroad each summer, Kirkland once engaged the Billy Taylor jazz trio, Winthrop offers grants for special thesis projects, and Adams sponsors exhibitions of student collections ("everything from coins to ikons to rare books...
...press. Linda Darnell got herself Page One hypnotized to learn a part. And Brigitte Bardot announced she is going to Moscow for the premiere of her forthcoming movie (in which she is fully clothed from first reel to last). Finally, the Motion Picture Division of U.C.L.A. invited Elizabeth Taylor to be a guest lecturer. Her subject? Said Division Head Arthur Ripley: "We want her to tell our students what they can expect when they get into the motion-picture world...