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...when four of his plays ran simultaneously in the West End. Porter was born wealthy and attended Yale and Harvard. His first Broadway show lasted two weeks. "You would be well advised," wrote one critic, "in considering the latest musical offerings, to see See America First last." Stung by the reviews, Porter retreated to France and did not compose a full score for the American theater until he was 35. Coward affected a brittle, malicious wit and was a lifelong bachelor. Porter had a ready, indulgent humor and was married for 35 years to Linda Lee Thomas, a famous society...
...Stung by the reception given to Weinberger by some 600 students last November, Epps has redoubled his efforts to wipe out student protest. He has threatened the two of us with expulsion. On 16 January we were called in for a chat with Elliot Cohen, our senior tutor at Quincy House. While Mr. Cohen blathered about Harvard's "liberal principles" which he felt were blown to smithereens by the Weinberger protest, we thought about the 50,000 Salvadorans who were blown to smithereens by Caspar Weinberger '38, the victims of "liberal principles." Mr. Cohen's soliloquy was cut short...
...Fuji stung Kodak by outbidding the American company to get the title of official film for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Kodak struck back by acquiring the right to have its film named the official one for both the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
...Administration has also come under mounting criticism in Congress and elsewhere for its policies in El Salvador. Since 1979, right-wing death squads that are backed, and in many cases staffed, by the military and by government security forces have murdered thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies. Stung by charges that it has not pressed the government of Alvaro Magaña hard enough on the matter, the White House sent Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé to San Salvador two weeks ago to demand action. In a major policy statement delivered in Dallas after his return...
...opening 40 minutes, the booters looked ready to play their kind of match. Princeton stung them early, when Tiger midfielder John Bettino intercepted a bad pass at the half stripe and sent the ball to fellow halfback Tom Poz, who converted the breakaway...