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Alexander A. McDonell '63 was named the Naval ROTC senior displaying outstanding traits of leadership; and David R. Downer. Jr '63 was named the senior outstanding for "leadership, academic studies, military bearing, discipline, and related traits," among Air Force ROTC students. James H. Bondison '63 received a similar citation from Army ROTC...
...museum of nonobjective painting from its opening in 1939 to 1952, and is still a trustee of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The baroness is also a painter, and between 1955 and 1959 she donated eight of her own paintings to three schools, Arizona State College, Milwaukee-Downer College and Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. The market value claimed on her tax returns ranged from $1,000 for an abstraction called Scherzo to $30,000 each for the three parts of her triptych Con Moto, Andante and Allegro. Last month, Internal Revenue challenged the evaluations...
Miss Leighton, it must be candidly admitted, is a joy to watch at any time, and she almost saves the show just by being in it. Progressively downer and outer, she is ever, as she tells us at the end of Act I when she exits, stoned, with her dress covering little of her back, "every inch a lady...
...much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion, is not often very bright...
...will go to some rather special people. Examples: Pembroke has a scholarship for a girl who does not smoke, Yale has $1,000 for a boy named DeForest, Princeton has a scholarship for an Eagle Scout and Harvard has funds for boys with the name Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Haven, Murphy or Pennoyer-and also for an lowan, preferably living somewhere along the Burlington. Among the lowan takers: Nathan Pusey of Council Bluffs...