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...evening touring Violinist Nathan Milstein found himself in Chicago, all dressed up and no place to go. In a bit of a funk, he consulted his contract, which cryptically stated that he was to play a concert that night in suburban Evanston, Ill. Misplaced Person Milstein, at a loss for details on exactly where, appealed for help to the Chicago Tribune's omniscient Drama & Musicritic Claudia Cassidy. Manning her telephone, Claudia finally hit on the right place, just an hour before curtain time. At 8 p.m. Fiddler Milstein, calm but breathless, strode onstage at Northwestern University's Cahn...
President and Mrs. Nathan M. Pusey will be at home at 17 Quincy Street as usual on the first Sunday of the month, April first, 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...
...might "visit" Harvard. On balance. I have hopes that the program will have a wide and favorable effect throughout the country in calling attention to the work of our universities, and I am personally grateful to all the Harvard people who willingly cooperated with the many demands of television. Nathan M. Pusey...
...really conscious of Jim Eastland's existence. In the Magnolia State itself, however, Eastland was born a power to be reckoned with. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Richmond Austin, came from one of the state's most blue-blooded families, and rode as a cavalry officer under General Nathan Bedford Forrest (later one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan). His paternal grandfather not only made a pile out of a drugstore chain, but also had the foresight to buy, at $1 an acre, 600 acres of cotton land near the hamlet of Doddsville in the Mississippi Delta...
...Casey grudge can reach far back to cuff an offender ("Pinero . . . turned the wine of drama into water. A miracle, a miracle!"). Three pieces are devoted to the demerits of Noel Coward, whose works are finally summed up in two words (of George Jean Nathan's): "zymotic bilge." As for the "flea minds" of Ireland who are not properly reverent to their self-exiled bard, "these critics do not injure O'Casey, but they disgrace Ireland." He feels he is in good company, for Shakespeare too seems to him to be disgraced in his homeland...