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President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, March fifth, from four to six o'clock, and will be happy to welcome members of the faculties, and others holding Corporation appointments, and their wives or husbands...
...place in the city where an opera-sized production could be staged before a mixed audience). King Kong was an instant hit, and played before 120,000 persons-two-thirds of them white-in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. Then, as now in London, heavyweight Jazz Singer Nathan M'dledle (pronounced Muh-dead-ly) played "the King." His girl was played by Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera by 29-year-old Peggy Phango. From the beginning, the semipro chorus...
...Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists named George J. Bornstein '63, of Lowell House and St. Louis, Mo., president; Stephen S. Tobias '64, of Holworthy Hall and New York City, vice-president; Nathan N. Swett '63, of Lowell House and New Haven, Conn., secretary; and Dan S. Rau '63, of Adams House and New York City, treasurer...
...just because it mocks something, it is very satisfying to recognise a small and particular bit of cleverness. Of the contemporary rash of parodies Benchley's (again) are the most effective; they are gentle and charming as his stories. One of them has H. L. Mencken reviewing George Jean Nathan, and vice-versa. Mencken on Nathan...
...There is a current and quite pre-posterous impression that Nathan's hold on the intellectual booberle is a sensual one. He is supposed to titillate their nerve centers, causing them to jump. More palpaple tosh than this has not been formed a part of the public superstition since the Sermon on the Mount...I confidently predict that in a hundred years he will be remembered solely for his cravats...