Word: whitehead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producer in his own right (Twelfth Night), Stevens teamed up last fall with topnotch Broadway Producer Robert (The Time of the Cuckoo) Whitehead and fellow Tycoon Robert Dowling (City Investing Co.) to form a glittering $1,000,000 triumvirate. Its aims: "To produce plays and operate playhouses" on a businesslike, year-round basis-and to take risks for art's sake as well as to make a profit...
Despite a late start last season, the triumvirate sponsored two plays: T.S. Eliot's Confidential Clerk, Liam O'Brien's The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Neither lost money; Clerk stirred up a critics' controversy. This year Producer Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost...
...group of city high-school students wrestled with an odd sort of problem. The class happened to be in mathematics, but the sort of math the teen-agers were tackling went far beyond anything that even most college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step by step through an argument-but to overall plans of attack which...
...Newton, Biology; Jordan Joseph, Roxbury, Biochemical Sciences; Kent W. Frederickson, Saugus, English; Lyman E. Sproul, Jr., Saugus, Biology; John T. Bethell, South Essex, English; Jonathan Ketchum, South Natick, Music; Michael C. J. Putnam, Springfield, Classics; David S. Feingold, West Newton, Biochemical Sciences; Sorgel P. Sorokin, Winchester, Biology; Donald R. Whitehead, Wollaston, Biology...
Comencement Week passed uneventfully with the awarding of 1625 degrees and an honorary to Alfred North Whitehead, "a philosopher generous and kind, whose thought pierces deeper than others look." And the Class of 1929 ended its first year on the Charles much less dramatically than when it began...