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Like other recent Broadway hits, including A Chorus Line and Runaways, Ain't Misbehavin' started out in the hinterlands-in its case, a cramped boite (seating 65) in the Manhattan Theater Club. But from the first, Director Richard Maltby Jr., 40, the Yaleman who put Ain't Misbehavin' together, believed that what he had was not just a little revue but a big Broadway show, cut down to cabaret size. Sure enough, he recalls, "after the first three nights, I told the cast they'd better get ready for something really big. In fact...
Several celebrated administrators from other colleges were therefore leery of the job. Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky actually refused it. Even Giamatti needed convincing, though he is a Yaleman (Class of '60), son of a Yaleman (Class of '32) and a devoted alumnus. Says he: "I'm going to hate some of the things I'll have to do, and people are going to hate...
President Curry, described as a rich man's son, a Yaleman and a "handsome weakling," dies before completing his term. His Democratic successor makes William Martin, the CIA agent who saw to the murder, boss of The Company. Why? Because the new President is aware of the secret order and of Martin's guilt. Armed with that knowledge, he tries to indulge in a little friendly blackmail to get CIA files for use in the next election. This President, Esker Scott Anderson, is portrayed as a vast, salty-tongued, womanizing hick and a "pluperfect egomaniac" who dotes...
...candidates for cultural immortality, more or less lovingly revived in four colors from what used to be called the funny papers. In Volume I of Flash Gordon, that Yaleman for all seasons progresses from his crash landing on the planet Mongo with delicious but dumb Dale Arden and brilliant...
...Angeles an exotic city and options on Ulysses don't make Hollywood a sophisticated one"). Then there's Webster's New International Dictionary (third edition), the "One Hundred Great Books," and all translations of the Bible except the King James Version. Will these insults to a Yaleman's taste (class of 1928) never cease...