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...faculty and student talent naturally funnelling off either into other colleges where their specialties are not given orphan-child treatment. At its worst, a hit-and-miss endowment policy can neglect faculty salaries (which, at certain levels, Harvard can scarcely neglect much longer) and other immediate needs until the wealthiest University in the world is forced to forsake its leadership in certain areas for lack of faculty and facilities...
Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...
...baroque Salzburg, long Austria's wealthiest city, G.I.s had a complaint to make last week. Their favorite movie theater, the Army's "Roxy," had been taken from them. For one month it was once more Festspielhaus for the century-old music festival in honor of Native Son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
Partly from envy and partly from desperate need, sometimes cynically and sometimes hopefully, the world asked what its wealthiest nation would do with its riches. Whether the well-fed U.S. could win a hungry world for democracy depended largely on what sacrifices the U.S. would make to stave off world famine...
...Easter gift to the Orthodox Church, the Soviet Government last fortnight announced that Russia's once-wealthiest convent, the 422-year-old Novodyevichi ("New Virgins"), which has been a Moscow museum since 1922, would be restored to the Church. It could again take in Russian girls as nuns. About 90 other convents and monasteries throughout Russia have been recently returned to the Church, making its recovery of confiscated properties exceed...