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...previously reached there only by Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...
...Died. Vincent Claude Giblin, 67, onetime Florida mouthpiece for Al Capone, who later served nine tempestuous years as a suddenly crusading Dade County circuit judge, fighting quickie divorces and getting the residence law changed from 90 days to six months, all the while venting his terrible temper ("I'd like to boot her in the fanny!" "You're a pygmy on stilts!") to such an extent that he was finally forced to retire in 1959; of cancer; in Miami...
...longer the Angry Young Man who wrote Room at the Top, Britain's John Braine here dabbles in religious sensibility. At 30, Vincent Dungarvan is still a mother's boy, a virginal Irish schoolmaster who likes music, poetry, teaching and, best of all, to keep safely within his ivory tower and dream, "a pleasure that couldn't commit him, couldn't puzzle him, couldn't humiliate him." Vincent's Mom, who keeps his house and conscience for him, wants him to embrace the priestly life. A green-eyed Protestant offers him something better...
...Junior Fellows are: Hans C, Andersen, physical chemistry: Robert C. Darnton, '60, European history: Vincent M. DeLany, theoretical physics: Elling O. Eide '57, Chinese literature: Donald A. Martin '62, philosophy: James C. Nohrnberg, English and American literature: Mark S. Ptashne, molecular biology: Richard J. Zeckhauser '62, economics...
...escaping from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon...