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Strong on the arts, Culver even gets its lads to doff boots for ballet lessons. To its new $1,400,000 auditorium this year, it is bringing such cultural attractions as the Indianapolis Symphony and sharing them with hundreds of public school children. Culver has the oldest credit course in dramatics of any U.S. secondary school, has sent to Broadway such bright lights as Playwright William Inge, Director Joshua Logan and Monologuist Hal Holbrook...
...despite a boycott ordered by farm and labor unions, De Gaulle got a rousing welcome. As his convoy of black Citroëns wound through patches of woodlands tinged with autumn, past slate-roofed farmhouses, farmers and their families came to the edges of their fields to wave and doff their berets; and at crossroads, schoolchildren fluttered paper flags. Once again, De Gaulle showed that despite sporadic signs of discontent, his hold on the French people remains largely intact...
...Riding the bench as though it were a bronco in full buck, McGuire baits officials ("I must hold the Carolina record for technical fouls"), indicates uncontrollable wrath by rising ominously from his seat and taking off his coat. Behind him, as if on signal, Abbey rooters stand to doff theirs in sympathy. Showman McGuire has also outraged basketball purists by offering to buy every spectator an ice-cream bar if Abbey lost-it did, but the ice cream was donated free by a manufacturer-and by insisting that there are "no secrets to basketball any more except recruiting." Says...
LONDON, Oct. 16--Right-wingers have urged Britain's Labor party to doff its cloth cap and blue denims, forget about nationalization, and become the party of all the people...
...much care on the serious as on the comic and farcical aspects. Consequently we can best see the play as it really is: when the lines soar, this production soars; when the writing flags, so does the production. The director's decision was daring, dangerous, and difficult; and I doff my derby in docile deference...