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...Charles Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left...
...Martello Tower at Sandycove on the Irish Sea, Dublin at last paid formal homage to the genius of a man who had long outraged and puzzled it-James Joyce. At the start of a week-long tribute, the Tower, refurbished with the help of funds from Film Director John Huston, Playwright Sean O'Casey and Poet T. S. Eliot, was dedicated as a James Joyce museum, housing first editions of his books, recordings of his readings, and a death mask made in 1941 in Zurich, where he died after more than 30 years of self-exile. The site...
...classic case is the time-honored tradition of the riot. Many great ones have taken place in Cambridge, ranging from a week-long demonstration that led former Harvard President Josiah Quincy to throw out the entire class of 1834, to the 5000-student disorder last April demanding restoration of the Latin Diploma. There are few sights more stirring than a college riot, but Harvard is not making idle threats in its pamphlet Regulations for Students in Harvard College, that the "mere presence" of a student in a disturbance or unauthorized demonstration makes him liable to disciplinary action. Several students whose...
Maurice Eisenberg, one of the world's greatest cellists, will give a concert tonight at 9 p.m. in the Lowell House Dining Hall. Tickets for the concert are available at the Coop and at the door. Eisenberg's appearance is part of a week-long music festival at Lowell House...
...thousands of Shinto shrines across Japan last week, sober-faced girls in white robes and vermilion skirts practiced the stately postures of the ritualistic Kagura dance. Musicians wearing eboshi (ceremonial headgear) thumped out an accompaniment on wooden drums, played the ancient ceremonial songs on reedy bamboo flutes. At Tokyo's huge Meiji shrine, the 190 fulltime staff members and 100 temporary helpers put in twelve-hour days cleaning up the building and consecrating tiny religious symbols for sale to worshipers. The week-long New Year's festival-Japan's most important religious event-was coming, and Shinto...