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Died. Henry Myron Blackmer, 92, elusive Teapot Dome swindler, an oil-rich dandy nicknamed ''Darling of the Gods" for his lavish sprees during the West's reckless frontier era; in Geneva, Switzerland. Blackmer fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Harding Administration oil scandal and fought off all U.S. extradition efforts, but after 25 years in self-exile, by then a half-blind octogenarian without a country, he paid up $4,000,000 in back taxes, returned to face federal trial, where he was fined another $20,000 for income-tax evasion and then...
...which he was appointed Dean at the age of 34, Bundy began to demonstrate this combination of effective action and on-the-record silence. The year before (1953), as an associate professor of Government, he had been the University's representative on the six-institution committee that produced the Blackmer report recommending advancing qualified incoming students beyond Freshman courses and perhaps beyond the Freshman year itself into Sophomore Standing...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The network continues its impressive series of prime-time specials with another big one: What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd Schulberg's vitriolic story of a young heel on the make. With Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden, Barbara Rush and Sidney Blackmer. Act I, with the second coming up next week...
From Lowell House, the Junior Ushers chosen are Alan R. Blackmer, Douglas M. Cain, Jr., Benjamin R. Neilson, Lawrence B. Ekpebu, Langley C. Keyes, Robert R. Little, and John C. Provine; from Winthrop House, Michael W. Christian Arthur S. Cahn Samuel A. Halaby, Michael B. Donohue, Konard A. Ulbrich, Harold J. Keohane, Robert T. David, and William G. Reid. The remaining ushers are charles W. Maynes from Claverly Hall, Harvey L. Ozer and Alan P. Pollard, both from Wigglesworth Hall, Donald P. Quinn and Francis J. Culhane from Cambridge, and Lawrence C. Browne from Dedham...
...strides "Big Daddy." This time he is Boss Finley (Sidney Blackmer) a demogogic Southern politician, and he wears a yellow dressing gown instead of Burl Ives's white one. The first Big Daddy psychologically emasculated his son; this one threatens Chance Wayne with physical castration. It seems that Heavenly, the Boss's daughter, contracted a disease from Chance years ago and had to have a hysterectomy. In scenes of bogus dramaturgy, Boss Finley and his children snarl revelations at each other (e.g., he keeps a mistress) that should have been common family knowledge for years. Toward play...