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These two assumptions are justified if one looks at some state universites. Football can be much overemphasized: a good athlete may need no other talent to stay in college, and the university may lavish money on him to secure the interest and donations of the alumni. With this kind of situation, Hutchins of Chicago took a drastic stop, the abolition of football, because the middle ground of deemphasis was impossible to achieve in an atmosphere tolerant to big-time sports...
...week studded with good dramatic revivals on NBC, the biggest and best was the Producers' Showcase lavish production of The Women. This feline free-for-all, written in 1936 by Clare Boothe Luce, remains an actresses' field day, and Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Nancy Olson, Valerie Bettis and Cathleen Nesbitt waged an exciting conflict for domination of the manless stage. A few of the more trenchant lines were dropped from the TV version of the play, and Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland seemed miscast as the viper-tongued Sylvia Fowler and the gigolo-collecting Countess...
...life Rubinstein and his money attracted swarms of women, most of them beautiful and taller by several inches than the squat, 5-ft. 7-in. Serge. In 1941 he married Laurette Kilborn, a redheaded model from Flushing, L.I. After their wedding, in Alexandria, Va., Rubinstein gave a lavish reception at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, inviting 150 eminent friends. Nine ambassadors and a murmuration of Senators and Congressmen dutifully turned up to toast the bride and groom...
...20th century Europe the state shoulders the load. In the U.S., until recently, there has been only a scattering of such dedicated individuals as the late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and Alma Morgenthau to support the creation of new music. But today, U.S. composers are witnessing the most lavish patronage boom they have ever seen...
...from the University of Oregon. In two years he was the dean of the law school. One of his students was Dick Neuberger, and the professor had profound and lasting influence on the young man. It was Morse who saved Neuberger in the now famous cribbing incident. Neuberger made lavish use of his unlimited cuts in a class in law bibliography, was absent when the instructor announced that the usual consultation among students would not be allowed at the next assignment. Unaware of the injunction, Neuberger consulted freely with a fellow student, was promptly found guilty of violating the university...