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...simple straightforward entry is always worth a try and has an outside chance of success. "If Rose Marie is any indication of the gala entertainment in Canada's Rockies, I would love to go to Niagara Falls, quite a step away." And as in anything else, the pathos of a hard luck story is sometimes undeniable, "My wife and me are jobless tight rope walkers who want to stir up a little publicity against Canada's breathtaking Falls in Cinemascope if possible...
Paris has long been rather bored with opera. Since shortly before World War I, only a few real enthusiasts have been turning up to see the Lohengrin?, and the Pagliaccis sung against dusty backgrounds; the 2,300-seat Paris Opera House has been half empty even on gala ballet nights. But two years ago the management signed a new director, Maurice Lehmann, a man with the outsized imagination of a Cecil B. de Mille; since then, things have been looking...
Should the Administration deny the use of Memorial Hall to freshmen, the gala Smoker would be a thing of the past. Nowhere else in the University is there a place suited to hold over a thousand, fun-loving, rollicking freshmen. The sanity and reservation inherent in mass fun would lose itself in the cramped confines of individual suites. And the playful inanity of both the elections and entertainment would promptly cease...
...honor, protocol demanded that The Star-Spangled Banner be played. Unable to find a score in all Rhodesia, the sponsors finally discovered a fellow who makes a hobby of collecting records of national anthems. From an old recording of his, copyists worked out an arrangement in time for a gala performance of Aïda. The colonials also raised the Stars & Stripes over the exhibition grounds. But their enthusiasm soon faded a little. Minister Ball volunteered the information that at Ball Bros. Co., Inc., in Muncie, Negroes get the same pay as whites for the same work and can even...
Included during President Lowell's gala three day installation were numerous luncheons and banquets, a Boston Symphony concert in Sanders Theatre, and a torchlight parade by undergraduates to the Stadium, where the new President greeted them from a seat in Section...