The Reel Deal

The cinematic life of Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg '36 plays out when you go through the treasure trove of Schulberg papers, letters and other materials recently obtained by the College archives. Some of the highlights from nearly six decades of Schulberg's career:

A typewritten script of the Academy Award-winning 1954 screenplay On theWaterfront with Schulberg's handwritten revisions.

A 1939 note from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Schulberg about their collaboration on the screenplay about Dartmouth's Winter Carnival. In the note Fitzgerald refers to Dartmouth as the "Indian school."

A Dartmouth Jacko from the spring of 1934. Schulberg honed his skills while writing for the student humor publication.

An out-of-pocket expense report for Playboy, totaling $1,637.15, incurred to cover the 1971 Mohammed Ali title fight against Joe Frazier. Schulberg later served as boxing editor at SportsIllustrated.

"Gain and Loss," a 1926 short story young Schulberg wrote at age 12.

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Retirement Update As of June five undergraduate faculty members are newly retired from Dartmouth. They are David Becker (government), Dick Birnie '66 (geology), Peter Saccio (English), Leo Spitzer (history) and Samuel Stark (French and Italian languages and literatures). When asked for a comment about his departure from the classroom, Saccio referred to King Lear, of course: "Men must endure/Their going hence, even as their coming hither./Ripeness is all. Come on."