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...Debate Council represents the University in numerous contests with other schools. Much like an athletic team, the Council must participate in Ivy League and invitational tournaments. But even more important, the speaking contests now take place before large audiences. On the recent Mid-Western tour, for example, nearly ten thousand people heard the Harvard team...
...these trips, the Council now depends on a one hundred and fifty dollar fund awarded every other year at the University's discretion. The only team instruction is the occasional assistance donated by a member of the speech department on his own time. In marked contrast are the yearly thousand dollar budgets and ample coaching staffs of Yale, Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The Harvard Council, in order to fill all its obligations, has organized a fund-raising alumni committee to support the debating program. Following the Council's initiative the least the University can do is provide...
Posturing in a four thousand-pound setting of wood and stretched canvas, the 60-odd members of the Marco Millions cast will go through a final dress rehearsal tonight on the eve of the HDC's spring production opening in Sanders Theatre...
...secretary in the country." Another veteran secretary is Mary McDowall Stoll, who has been with TIME'S Detroit bureau through the past 20 years. She first came to TIME in 1934 as an switchboard operator. Bureau Chief Fred Collins describes her as a person "who does a thousand chores, mostly of a monotonous type, with the relish of a youngster watching his first big-league baseball game." Mary agrees with the word "relish" but not "monotonous." Says she: "I like the diversity of subjects that we handle every day-everything from automotive stories to flying saucer...
After a short break, the thousand or so paying guests filed back in to hear George Shearing. What they heard, however, could hardly be compared with the old Shearing. It was a circus, with Shearing the ring-master. Whenever he played his old numbers--which was rarely--they had a heavy, dance-band beat. Most of his pieces were novelty selections, featuring everything from African drums to a high-pitched, over-amplified electric harmonica...