Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bent on a Paris weekend, madcap Comedienne Bea Lillie, currently whooping it up as the West End's Auntie Mdme, mameishly chartered her own Viscount, took off from London with a slew (38) of friends, including high-spirited Actors Trevor Howard and Charles Laughton. Highlights of the tour: a determined check on rive droite fleshpots, a calorie-laden spread at the Tour d'Argent, a gleeful reunion with another Mame, Greer...
Garson, who subbed briefly for Rosalind Russell in the Manhattan version. Buckled back into the plane some 44 hours later, tireless Hostess Lillie was still crying for more ("I want to continue the party all night. To hell with Auntie Mame"), next day breathed plans for another weekend. New target: Rome...
Departmental officials disagreed this weekend on the advisability of mixed tutorial groups. Discussion was spurred by formation of the new Radcliffe Committee on Tutorial, which will study the issue...
Rodents abounded around the University last weekend. Friday night a number of enterprising undergraduates ran a Suffolk Downs-style mouse race in their living room. And Saturday afternoon Yalies let loose several lethargic rats on the playing field, at least one of which was not retrieved...
...Harvard faculty member candidly admits that "When I was at Yale and we wanted to 'go to town,' we went to New York." This usually involves a three-day weekend, and it happens fairly frequently; for, as one put it, "New Haven is certainly no great intellectual center...