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...itself and perhaps draw an unsolicited profit. If private reaction has approached the enthusiasm of other universities, they may be right. Over 300 different places outside the United States are participating actively in the celebration. In the U.S., more than 700 institutions have dedicated programs to the theme. Lone response to invitations sent to Russia and the satellites came three years later from the head of the Soviet Academy of Science. He admitted Columbia's appeal was "timely," but concluded her concern with the problem only showed there was no freedom of thought or action in American universities...
Republican Allott is honest and capable, but lacks Carroll's political glamour. He has long been a lone wolf in Colorado politics-e.g., he was the state's only big Stassen supporter in 1952, held out to the bitter...
Died. Bert Lytell, 69, for 66 years an actor in the theater, radio, cinema and TV; after an operation; in Manhattan. A matinee idol of silent films (The Lone Wolf, Alias Jimmy Valentine), he moved smoothly from leading man to character roles on Broadway (Lady in the Dark), served as president of Actors' Equity for seven years...
...fellow playwrights went absolutely Gorky ("Dawn over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...lone Spitfire sped down into a pack of Messerschmitts and knocked down two of them. Then something hit the Spitfire...