Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado Springs, Harry Galbraith of the Colorado Historical Society settled an old controversy over the proper way to make a pioneer drink variously known as "pizen," "popskull" and "panther milk." The recipe: "To a five-gallon keg of Taos Lightning [whiskey] add a one-pound plug of chopped chewing tobacco, two pounds of burnt dried peaches and 20 charges of gunpowder; stir the mixture well and drink...
...Saint Joan" publicized and played its way into the biggest hit in Harvard history. Its gross $5000 take smothered the simple if effective rival offering, "Waiting for Lefty," into a dusty corner, and the failure of a last-ditch HDC presentation of "Juno and the Paycock" didn't add any blue stars for prestige to that side of the ledger. Fat with its "Joan" power and profits, the Theatre Workshop bounded into 1947-48 like a herd of swollen gazelles...
Next term Gaus will add a pet trial offering in "American Development" to his present course in administration--Gov 36--and his seminar on the planning process." Such a partnership between the colorful general sweep of his field and the down-to-earth mechanisms within it typifies his outlook. For nation-forming inherently requires planning, he insists with a sideswipe at "the fluffy talk of the last 15 years which had to be sloughed off for the sake of something really important at the core." The jig isn't up: "this way they won't label me a planner...
...archetype of Prussian character and statecraft, "Old Fritz" inspired Goethe, has been almost adored by a long line of German historians. Carlyle, Macaulay and Lytton Strachey wrote of him with fascination and even with admiration. Present-day scholarship has little to add to the full-dress biographies now in existence, but British Historian Gooch, a master of all the sources, has strung the story together with authority...
...lucrative rut. Rodgers and Hammerstein have been so phenomenally successful on Broadway during the last few years that almost no one would have blamed them for letting their triumphs go Midas-like to their heads and for turning out a third musical with nothing new to add to the scope of its famous and profitable predecessors...