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Died. Dr. Anton Julius ("Ajax") Carlson, 81, peppery, renowned Swedish-born physiologist, leading authority on nutrition, old age and alcoholism (TIME, Feb. 10, 1941), longtime member (and head, 1916-40) of the University of Chicago's physiology department; in Chicago...
...picking out two lines of poetry similar in some way other than in meaning (a) With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, b) When I consider how my light is spent, c) When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw), a student must show a high degree of literary perception. Each line has ten syllables, and each is in iambic pentameter. But only b makes little attempt to convey meaning through the sound of the words used...
...radio and TV humorist whose topical, misanthropic wit and acidity reached its peak in the early '40s on the radio show Town Hall Tonight, which included his wife Portland Hoffa and such zany denizens of Allen's Alley as Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy; of a heart attack while walking his dog near midnight on Manhattan's West 57th Street. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Allen lurched onto the vaudeville boards at 17 as one of the most inept jugglers in history, became a comic after serving in World War I, starred in Broadway...
...legalistic victory is well worth an international cataclysm. Finding Troy useless, Hector turns to Greece, to the worldly-wise Ulysses (played impeccably by Walter Fitzgerald). Though thinking wars unpreventable, Ulysses vows this time to prevent one. But a warmongering poet whom Hector angrily throttles cries out that Greek Ajax has throttled him; Ajax is mauled by Trojans; and Giraudoux's story passes over into Homer...
...composer, Frederico Valerio, has avoided the pitfall of patterning his score after successful musicals. There is nothing in On With the Show which sounds like Guys and Dolls, The Pajama Game, or Can-Can. A steady radio listener, however, might recognize the Ajax commercial or the overture to a toothpaste jingle...