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...fact, while McCue was still dean-designate last year, he helped resolve the School's most prominent problem--the years-long struggle over the direction of the department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) at the GSD--with one swift and dramatic stroke. McCue's boldness surprised many observers, but most believed it to be a logical response to the strife that has surrounded CRP for the past five years. Since John F. Kain, professor of Economics, took over as chairman of CRP in 1975, the department has taken an unabashedly nontraditional approach to urban planning. He shook...
...Elizabeth Bishop, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former senior lecturer in English, died of a stroke in early October. Colleagues eulogized her as one of the finest poets of her time...
...heavyweight oarswomen's aggressive style compensated for an occasional lack of smoothness. Co-captains Kelly Ronan and Karen Spencer furnished strong leadership, plying the murky Charles from the two bow seats. The only other rower who will be lost to graduation is senior stroke Jenny Stone...
...possible" approach, listening to student complaints and taking action only when constant public pressure makes further passivity impossible. The Faculty's record in tenuring both minority and female professors remains appalling. Radcliffe's decision this year to eliminate the Radcliffe Forum, ostensibly for budgetary reasons, removed with a single stroke one of the few visible institutions on campus devoted entirely to women's needs...
DIED. Lillian Roth, 69, torchy-voiced singer-actress who told all about her lifelong struggle against alcoholism and mental illness in a poignant 1954 autobiography, I'll Cry Tomorrow, that became a hit movie starring Susan Hayward; following a stroke; in New York City. Pushed by ambitious parents, Roth was already a stage and vaudeville star when she began her Hollywood career at 18, but her professional success was punctuated by repeated personal disasters, including recurring drinking bouts, fits of depression and failed marriages. Her book's popularity helped launch a final comeback ("My 94th," she quipped) that...