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...Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
...Knife Wounds. In 1932, Marga decided to visit forbidden Mecca. Without further ado, she divorced her count and married a devout Moslem. As the couple started on their pilgrimage to the Holy City, her husband's tribe-resentful of his marriage to an infidel-kidnaped them both. For weeks Marga was held captive in the mountains. Then one day her sheik was found poisoned. The Moslems promptly found Marga guilty and ordered her stoned to death. Only the intervention of Ibn Saud saved her life...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
...Gradually convinced himself . . . that his dramaturgical plan [for the cycle] was faulty"-the cycle should tell of one family, not two-and "without further ado . . . destroyed two of the double-length or four of the plays he had written. . . ." (In his time, O'Neill has ruthlessly scrapped several other plays...
Facing reductions in the size of the student body, of their audiences, and of their till receipts throughout the wartime period, the Harvard Dramatic Club nevertheless put up a brave fight for survival. They produced such plays as "Owen Wingrave," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "The Misanthrope." Now on the docket for spring production is Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset...