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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Page report. At lunch in the Institute cafeteria a staff member told them that although the staff, the economists, the humanists, the mathematicians, etc. usually ate at their respective tables, Oppenheimer was at home with all of them. As for herself she added: "There's just no use trying to eat lunch with a mathematician. They won't leave it (mathematics) for a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...look across the square. There they would see the Tributary players, a group of awkward but earnest amateurs, offering Marlowe, O'Neill, Synge, Wilde, Moliere, and Shakespeare--all with a rich Boston accent. It will be a real pity if the Copley players don't get a chance to use their considerable talents in plays of that caliber...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Repertory: Boston's Own | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

...opening meeting of the New ten-member group will decide on the procedure the committee will use to solve the three main problems put before it by Provost Buck when he announced its formation on November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Committee Opens Advisory Investigation | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...place to hold the contest is the major something called "female night" Wednesdays and the Indoor Athletic Building's pool is out, for unstated reasons. Annex swimmers intend an attempt to cut through red tape to obtain use of the 'Cliffe gymnasium pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polless Radcliffe Mermaids Dare Harvard in water Polo | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...character of Captain Shotover was a remarkable bit of prophecy by Shaw. Shotover is a man in his 'dotage,' past much use to society save as a deflater of current heroes and notions, but still with his wits very much about him. Shotover is Shaw. The Copley people have seen this, and have had Philip Bourneuf, who plays Shotover, made-up as an amazing facsimile of G.B.S. Seeing and hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

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