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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kongsberg is an old, dignified town located about 80 miles from Oslo. The Ski School Committee will arrange sight-seeing tours, and the ski students will have an opportunity to attend the various Norwegian winter sports features...
...endowment, as of June 30, worth $194,402,876.91 on the market as opposed to $177,168,490.24 in the books. In other words, if you total the original value of Harvard's 1800 different endowment funds, you get $177 millions. If you went out and sold the various securities in which the funds have been invested; you would receive $194 millions...
Last week the Swedish Academy bestowed the Nobel Prize for Literature on André Gide, dean of French letters (The Counterfeiters; If It Die). In his 78 years Gide has, at various times, defended Communism, homosexuality, and "pure" Christianity divested of Pauline glosses. Most of all he has defended individualism...
...play the sort of sustained dramatic part that characterizes the work of a Katherine Cornell or a Judith Anderson. She is less, because whenever she undertakes non-musical roles such as Liza in "Pygmalion," her own virtuosity substitutes for the content of the play at various points throughout her performance...
...playing a vaudeville team, appear as rod-headed cockney sailors, and go through a song, dance and joke routine that can only be described as out of this world. The play progresses through a scene in their dressing room, where Miss Lawrence buffoons her way about the stage in various states of dress and undress, and ends on another vaudeville interpretation, this time with Payn and Miss Lawrence dressed in top hat and tails. It is the zenith of unadulterated entertainment...