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...trip's $50,000 budget, $40,000 has already been raised, according to Albert K. Webster '58, HRO tour manager who returned from Mexico Tuesday. Earlier this year, the project had been in danger of collapsing because of lack of funds...
...Webster broke down the sources of financial support for the one and one-half month trip as follows: an anonymous contribution of $10,000, another $10,000 from members of the orchestra and their parents, and $20,000 in 350 private contributions from "people in key positions in government and business circles in Boston, New York, Washington and Mexico itself...
...remaining $10,000, Webster said, will be raised through continued solicitation from the same sources, although the HRO "can still use help in getting the remainder...
...scale ranging from James Thurber's dry comment on newspapers' tendency to merge ("One day there is going to be just one newspaper and the whole front page will have to be devoted to the name") to an exhaustive reprise of the recent press row over Merriam-Webster's new dictionary (which gives respectability to such vulgarisms...
...could use them. Noting this, Critic Walter Kerr fondly observed that her "mouth turns up at both corners like a gondola," a suggestion of affability that leotards alone cannot convey. She exults in pronouncing her dozen or so lines, testing her new command of English with a Webster's enthusiasm for the language...