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Playwright Arthur Miller will be this year's Class Day speaker, Michael D. Dake '73, the Senior Class's First Marshall, said yesterday.
The Class Day committee chose Miller after comedian Woody Allen turned down an offer to speak. Allen will be in Colorado filming a movie during the month of June.
Allen was the top vote-getter in a poll conducted in February to determine the speakers seniors most wanted to hear on Class Day, June 13. Although Miller's name did not appear on the ballots used for the poll, Dake explained that the committee felt that Miller was "superior to any of the people in the poll."
Miller's plays include "A View from the Bridge," "The Crucible," "All My Sons" and "Death of a Salesman," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949.
Long involved with left-wing political causes, Miller was indicted and later acquitted for contempt in the fifties by the House Un-American Activities Committee, for refusing to reveal to the Committee the names of former left-wing associates.
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