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Charles William Eliot1869-1909 Abbott Lawrence Lowell 1909-1933 James Bryant Conant 1933-1953 Nathan Marsh Pusey 1953- Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dunbar, C. F. 1890-95 Peirce, J. M. 1895-98 Smith, C. L. 1898-02 Briggs, L. B. R. 1902-25 Moore, C. H. 1925-31 Murdock, K. B. 1931-34 Birkoff, G. D. (Acting) 1934-35 Brikhoff, G. D. 1936-39 Ferguson, W. S. 1939-41 Buck, P. H. 1924-53 Bundy, McG. 1953-61 Mason, E. S. (Acting) 1961 and Pusey, N. M. (Acting...
...finance. In those days, when news traveled no faster than the stagecoach or sailing ship, the five brothers realized that a speedy communications system could mean money, organized their own version of a private pony express and courier service. The system paid for itself many times over when Nathan, in London, achieved a two-day beat on the news of Waterloo, allowing him to score one of the greatest of stock-market coups. He had much at stake, since he had largely financed Wellington's army in Portugal anyway...
Happily, the show settles down to the real business of a wedding, which is squabbling and confusion. The negotiators, who would do credit to a disarmament conference, are Alfie Nathan (Shelley Berman), the bride's uncle and guardian, and Tilly Siegal (Eileen Heckart), the bridegroom's mother. Alfie innocently proposes a family affair in his living room, with only 40 guests present. Tilly wants the Old Oaks Country Club ("Problem weddings our specialty") and 400 guests. Alfie's defeat is honorable, and most of the time it is funny...
...Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Caprice Viennois, La Gitana, Schön Rosmarin-have grace as well as sentiment. They are so well tailored to the violin that they are almost certain to survive as favorite encore pieces. "His arrangements brought out things for the violin we never dreamed of," says Violinist Nathan Milstein. "The violin was advanced by three persons-Bach, Paganini and Kreisler...
...NATHAN MILSTEIN, 57. another native of Odessa, was a student of famed Hungarian-born Leopold Auer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where, recalls Milstein, the young Heifetz was already established as "the Prince of Wales of fiddlers." A post-conservatory concert success in Russia, Milstein left for Paris in 1925, gave concerts with an old Russian friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz. It was not until after World War II, when he married and settled down in Manhattan, that he began to build a reputation as something more than an extraordinarily gifted virtuoso. Milstein is still a master of the bravura composers...