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...addition to being an Overseer, Frost has also served here as Charles Eliot Norton lecturer on Poetry in 1936, and as Ralph Waldo Emerson fellow...
...example of advanced arrogance there is none to beat Clifton Webb. He sneers with such patent grandeur that, in Laura, one would never suspect that just before he had been a partially aging, and totally opened a career for him that found its peak in the now Waldo Lydekker, raconteur, bonvivant and egomaniac, opened a career for hom that found its peak in the now legendary Lynn Belvedere...
...rules change. Instead of soap operas and giveaways and cosmetic hints, the Sunday audience is considered grownup enough to hear-as they did this week -readings from Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (on NBC's Anthology) and to enjoy an appraisal of Ralph Waldo Emerson by the University of Southern California's Professor Frank Baxter (CBS), who pretends to be nothing more or less than an interested and interesting teacher...
...timber reserves ran out-about 1960-he could then cash in his chips as low-taxed capital gains. Other shareholders not in Avery's 91% income-tax bracket wanted hefty dividends declared along the way. Avery had enough support to sack company men who opposed him, including Treasurer Waldo G. Murphy...
...last directors' meeting, in Grand Rapids, the scales tipped against Sewell Avery. By a 5-to-4 vote, directors jacked up the dividend rate and ousted the fuming octogenarian. The man who lined up the opposition and became the new president: W. R. Murphy, 30, son of Waldo Murphy...