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...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...
Betty Comden and Adolph Green have written dialogue that is hurdly above average and often decidedly trite, but they redeem themselves in the delightfully daft lyrics of the hit number, "I Get Carried Away...
...tall, lean-jawed Lord Swinton had steadfastly plumped for the all-powerful authority to fix plane rates, routes, and passenger and cargo quotas-in effect, he wanted to cartelize postwar air transport. Otherwise, Britain feared that the sky-filling transport fleet of the U.S. would monopolize global flying. Stubbornly, Adolph A. Berle Jr., nimble-witted chairman of the U.S. delegation, demanded the freest of competition, argued that cartelization would hamstring postwar progress in aviation...
...with the new broom, as the new Under Secretary, came able, greying Joseph Clark Grew, 64, for almost a decade Ambassador to Japan and expert on Far Eastern affairs. Out as Assistant Secretaries went the greying Boy Prodigy, Braintruster Adolph A. Berle Jr., G. Howland Shaw and Breckinridge Long. All resigned simultaneously, and Franklin Roosevelt accepted the resignations "with great regret...
...important diplomatic post" would soon be found for capable career diplomat Norman Armour, ex-Ambassador to Argentina. With most top European assignments filled, dopesters guessed that Armour's next assignment would be Brazil, Breckinridge Long-so went the guesses-would probably go to Cuba as Ambassador; but gnomelike Adolph Berle will probably return to his New York law practice...