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When Margaret Webster was three years old, her mother, the late Dame May Whitty, used to read her to sleep with Shakespeare. Those words have been ringing in Miss Webster's ears ever since...
...Webster company, traveling in a bus, a truck and a station wagon, will barnstorm 87 cultural outposts-mostly colleges-on a six-month tour of 33 states and three Canadian provinces. Besides half a dozen technicians, the company consists of 21 players. The plays this season will be Hamlet and Macbeth...
What makes the picture even prettier, for Miss Webster, is that Impresario Sol Hurok is in it. He has booked the troupe on the same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...
...handmade at Harvard. In 1850, speaking of Professor John White Webster, who was convicted and hanged, Harvard's President Jared Sparks said: "Our professors do not often commit murder...
...Callipygian" is an easy, graceful word, and besides I have been to Naples-but "bedipitus" [TIME, July 26] does not appear to be in my copy of Webster's Unabridged . . . Where did you find...