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Surprise in Store. Many Canadian investors placed considerable trust in the prime mover of Windfall: Viola MacMillan, 61, a shrewd, hard-driving prospector since 1923 and the dark-haired darling of Canada's mining men. Miners had elected Viola president of the Prospectors and Developers Association 21 times, and serenaded her each time with a lively rendition of Let Me Call You Sweetheart. She and her husband George, the president of Windfall, were called "the mining Mac-Millans." They also kept stockholders in the dark. To one questioner, Viola replied cryptically: "A lot of people are going...
...Dudley Moore. Al-though it is a bit obvious in spots, it serves the work handsomely. Right from the ominous opening trombones, it is clear we are in for something impressive, a far cry from the satirical score he provided for Beyond the Fringe. Woodwinds, percussion, harp, a long viola solo, harpsichord, and even wordless voices--all function with telling effect...
...done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post, recently came away from Ashland pro claiming her "the finest young undiscovered actress in America...
Fire Buff. Descendant of a long line of fiddling Fiedlers (his father and two uncles were violinists with the B.S.O.), Arthur studied at Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, joined the Boston Symphony in 1915 and played musical chairs (violin, viola, celesta, piano, organ and percussions) before he founded the open-air Esplanade Concerts in 1929 and began luring up to 20,000 persons across the Arthur Fiedler Bridge to the banks of the Charles River for free concerts. In 1930 he became the first Boston-bred conductor of the Pops...
...grants established a new chair of radiological research at the Medical School, which has been filled by Henry I. Kohn, professor of Radiology. The new chair, known as the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller-American Cancer Society Professorship of Radiology, is one of 17 full-time research posts endowed by the Society throughout the country. Three of these research professorships are now at Harvard...