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...tour is a celebration of Martha Graham's 50th anniversary as a dancer, a career that is thoroughly chronicled in a new book, Martha Graham: Portrait of the Lady as an Artist* by Leroy Leatherman, her manager for the past 13 years. Though it tends to be overly idolatrous, the biography is an engrossing study of the woman and the creative forces that shaped her art. Beginning with the days when Graham performed tangos and apache dances in the Greenwich Village Follies, Leatherman traces her development through her early-American period (she is a descendant of Miles Standish...
Other Harvard finishers were: captain Jim Baker (30th) in his best time this year, Dick Howe (50th), Joe Ryan (51th), Jim Smith (82nd), and Tim McLoone (98th...
...such a job was not out of the question. At week's end Erhard turned up to toast Mende at his 50th birthday celebration. Would the Free Democrats some day rejoin his government? a reporter asked Erhard. "Why not?" shot back the Chancellor, but Mende chimed in that he had a condition: Erhard must first clean out the troublemakers within his own party...
After two of the longest, most grueling sessions in memory, the 89th Congress feverishly wound up its business last week and adjourned. With its final key measure, appropriating $5 billion for various Great Society programs-the 50th major bill adopted in the current session-Congress had in 1966 alone approved legislation that ranged from an anti-jellyfish measure to a new antipoverty law, and authorized expenditures of some $144.6 billion, second only to the $147 billion that it appropriated for a world...
...July 14, 1966, Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film, Torn Curtain, had its World Premier in Boston, Massachusetts. Hitchcock attended that premiere and, on the afternoon of the same day, he came to Harvard to receive an honorary membership in the Harvard Dramatic Club. These quotes come from a short question-answer period held at the award presentation, and from an exclusive interview held afterward at 4 p.m. in the Radcliffe Graduate Center...