Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Absent from the reunion was an anonymous genius with a more extraordinary career. Second brightest in the whole group, he graduated from, high school at 15, became a professional bridge player-for stakes-was rated the world's No. 7 amateur chess player. At 19 he suddenly gave up gambling, went to University of Chicago, whizzed through a four-year course in a year. At 25, well launched toward a career as a lawyer, he died of cancer...
...Harvard hasn't changed much since we were here," was the general comment of over 500 alumni who gathered Saturday at the university's special "open house" reunion...
...bitterness at Green, Lewis assaulted Hillman. He sneered at a resolution that C. I. 0. "explore" the possibilities of reunion with A. F. of L.-a resolution backed by Mr. Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, eager to see the Labor schism healed...
...reunion" of Milland and his "wife" in the offices of the Falangist general; the conversation on "three ways to get a woman" in the plane; the idyllic night in the woods of Compiegne; and the contrast as war and day break over the forest--these are the delicious drops in a goblet of directorial wine. It is a picture with a mood--and only the martial music of the final few moments mars the perfection of the whole...
...play, first produced by Gillette in 1894, will be a contrast to the Club's last production, T.S. Eliot's "The Family Reunion," which was an involved work with a classic Greek theme and partly in verse form. The new play concerns a man who explains his absences from home to meet his French chorus girl mistress by saying that he must take trips to Cuba on business. Complications arise when his family forces his hand by making the adulterer take them to Cuba to see his imaginary plantation...