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...ironic, perhaps, that someone who has come to mean so much to journalism initially had so little confidence in her professional skills. Born in 1917, Katharine Graham had a privileged, if emotionally constrained childhood in the Washington suburbs. She attended Vassar, then the University of Chicago, then began writing lifestyle pieces for various papers. Her father purchased the Post at a bankruptcy auction in 1933 for $825,000, and Katharine returned to Washington to start work on the editorial page...
...number of other factors-inexperience and mental errors among them-contributed to several early season losses to teams it could have beaten. The Crimson lost two games to a Vassar team that finished a game behind it in the Hay Division standings. But despite Harvard's early fall from EIVA contention, the season had its share of triumphs...
James Van Alen isn't sure he wants to tell a reporter just how terrific he thinks the Powerhouse Theater festival at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is. "If people find out about it, it's going to get mobbed," he says. Van Alen, a stockbroker, has attended a dozen Powerhouse productions each summer for 15 years. "They're as good as, if not better than, plays I've seen on Broadway and off-Broadway," he says. Indeed, many of the plays that end up on New York City stages get their start at the Powerhouse...
...York Stage and Film, which co-produces the festival with Vassar, mounts three new plays, half a dozen works-in-progress, plus numerous readings and other performances each summer. In the coming season, which runs from June 22 to Aug. 5, comedian Alan King stars in Mr. Goldwyn, a witty, glitzy play about the legendary moviemaker, and film actor Jay O. Sanders plays the lead in The Hurdy Gurdy Man, an examination of race and friendship set in Boston. Tickets cost $15 to $25--or you can wait till the plays hit New York, and pay $65 or more...
With its shot at the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) playoffs almost impossible after last weekend's split against Vassar and Southampton, the Harvard men's volleyball team trip to New York City this weekend officially ended that possibility...