Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text of the two-act play was adapted by Jerome Kilty '49 from the four decades of correspondence between Shaw and Mrs. Campbell, the celebrated British actress (nee Beatrice Stella Tanner). Many of their letters were published five years ago, but much of the material for this play has never been published, having been presented to Kilty by a friend who smuggled it out of France in 1940 at the behest of Mrs. Campbell, who was then on her deathbed and wanted the letters preserved...
...trustbusters might attempt to divorce old and happy corporate liaisons, whether set up by stock purchase (as in the Du Pont case) or by the acquisition of other assets, for fear that they could produce a monopoly. Bicks soothed their fears. Though Section 7 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act as amended in 1950 covers all asset acquisitions (it previously covered stock only), the amendments state clearly that "nothing contained in this action shall be held to affect or impair any right heretofore legally acquired." Therefore, he reasoned, a great many of pre-1950 mergers are "not subject to challenge...
...enforcement practicalities may move against stock or asset acquisitions consummated since then. The likelihood may well be that not too long after a merger has been consummated the assets of the merged companies may be so scrambled that effective divestiture may be unfeasible." Even if the trustbusters decide to act immediately, there are other effective blocks to quick action against a company that acquires only part of the stock of a supplier or customer. "Competitive consequences may be much more ambiguous at the time of purchase. Only after a passage of years may they emerge sufficiently clearly to warrant...
...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...
...Quare Fellow's predicament. In this way, Brendan Behan laughs at the society that thinks that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly dug for the customary reward of some snout (tobacco), four prisoners perform a final act reminiscent of the division of spoils on Calvary long ago. It is the prison custom not to send on the condemned man's last letters, but to bury them with him. As they are dropped in the grave, the prisoners grab for them. "Give us them bloody letters," says one. "They...