Overheard

Splash Landing: During Winter Carnival’s annual polar bear plunge back in February, 466 people—most of them students—voluntarily jumped in frigid Occom Pond.

Deaths

George Harold Payne ’38 • May 27, 2014 Nathan Straus III ’38 • Dec. 16, 2014 Harry F. Hopper Jr. ’43 • June 17, 2013 William MacFarlane Jones ’43 • Jan. 16 William T. Carlson ’46 • Jan. 2…

Director’s Cut

Veteran screenwriter Dan Gilroy ’81 talks about making his directorial debut last year with the Oscar-nominated Nightcrawler.

Behind the Scenes

You might want to pay attention next time credits roll: A number of alums work in the trenches of the television/movie business, and that’s where they get their due. There would be no Hollywood…

Drama King

A look back at the singular, turbulent life of twice-expelled Walter Wanger (rhymes with “danger”), class of 1915, who became one of Hollywood’s most prolific, if not law-abiding, producers.

Voices in the Wilderness

Austin Beutner ’82 • Mahmud Johnson ’13 • Cynde McInnis ’94 • David Brion Davis ’50 • Katherine Cespedes ’10 • Joseph Marcheso ’96