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...HEART OF the show, as everyone knows, is the glorious era of RKO and MGM musicals. Ray Bolger does the boasting for all the luminaries present: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Cyd Charisse, Eleanor Powell, Donald O'Connor, Judy Garland. Among the MGM treats is Gene Kelly's original dance with Carol Haney, whose figure was later replaced by a cartoon figure for the animated classic Invitation to Dance. Kelly dances with garbage-can lids on his feet in It's Always Fair Weather and Donald O'Connor helps him make a shambles of a linguist's office...
...then there's Fred Astaire. When Asaire dazzles his way through "A Shine on Your Shoes." "Pick Yourself Up," and "Night and Day," . . . well, it's no secret: when God Himself dances. He imitates Fred Astaire...
Because they began their careers in comic theater. MGM's great stars developed a special knack for giving movement meaning, for transcending footwork. When Fred lures deeper and deeper into a dance with every step and eventually, casually, plops her in a couch, smirks, and backs away wiping his hands, their dance is as dramatic as any dialogue; their movement as eloquent as any speech. Something more than style and footwork fills the scene. No doubt, years hence, we will look back at the 80's and see dancers worthy to stand with Astaire, Kelly, and Judy Garland. With luck...
...person who was the key to the success of the whole thing was Bob Stone," agrees Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development, who calls him "energetic and tireless. He's got to be the best volunteer leader any university has ever had for any fund drive...
Again, it was major donors--officially classified as giving $100,000 and up--who care through for Harvard. Of course, many of those gifts, explains Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50, had been in the works for a while "I don't think we had any rabbits in the hat It was just a lot of hard work," says Glimp, noting that a big gift almost always has a lengthy "gestation period" between the time a prospective donor is first contacted and when he ultimately signs the check...