Word: von
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tristram von der Fingern Lachen sneered down his wrinkled nose at the pampered dandies around him. His aristocratic toilet-a bath in olive oil and a dousing with detergent-had been completed at home. Great Danes are just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed...
...Committee substituted a performance by the Hasty Pudding Club for the usual motion pictures. The trend toward entertainment had only barely begun, however, and Elliott Perkins '23, then Assisstant Dean of Freshmen, spoke on "Individualism of Harvard." In 1934 the speeches of President Conant and of F. Skiddy von Stade jr., secretary-treasurer of his class, shared the spotlight with Bill Cunningham, Rabbit Marenville, and Rudy Valle. In the next year, President Conant gave way to Jimmy Foxx...
...other six faculty members and their appointments are: Arthur T. Von Mehren '43, to the Committee on Foreign Exchange of Law Teachers and Students; Louis B. Sohn, Committee on International Law; Harold J. Berman, director of the study on teaching law in the liberal arts curriculum; Charles Fairman, Admissions Committee. These four are professors...
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Irmgard Seefried, Rita Streich, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan; Angel, 3 LPs). One of Strauss's important operas, handicapped by a confused libretto, but abetted by some soaringly lyrical music. Even when the score is less than inspired, the cast's three unbeatable leading sopranos melt the listener...
...late afternoon, the Committee members will split up to visit the other Houses. They will spend the evening with the Masters, Charles P. Whitlock, senior tutor of Dudley, Reynolds, Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, and F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen...