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Christopher Morley's first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse...
...paid $6,000,000 for a corner in Manhattan's Times Square, put a shop on it to sell cigarets at a pipsqueak profit per package. Mr. Schulte's great attachment to real estate has not been entirely irrational. Once he bought the Aeolian Hall, then on 42nd Street, and sold it two weeks later for $1,000,000 profit...
Summer H. Slichter, Professor of Economics at the Business School, has accepted an invitation to address the Congress of American Industry and the 42nd Annual Convention of the National Association of Manufacturers to be held in New York December 5 to 9, it was learned yesterday...
...home. I was once a barber and an expert hairdresser and I know all about things like this. It is not hurting the little chicken." Looking skeptically at the little chicken's nude fundament, Mr. Nelson was not so sure. He began to fight with Mr. Berger. At 42nd St. they were pried apart, taken to a nearby station house. Mr. Nelson promptly charged Mr. Berger with cruelty to animals. A policeman took the little chicken into the next room, knocked it on the head, stuffed it into an envelope, marked it "Exhibit A." Mr. Berger was detained pending...
...Life Camps have been supported by nationwide private contributions. This year the entire overhead is being paid by TIME Inc., thus ensuring that every contributed dollar will go direct to the child, not one for office expense. For further information or for contributions address: Life Camps, Inc., 135 East 42nd St., New York City...