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...recognizes the importance of the beverage connoisseur, the heavy drinker or the excellent use to which alcohol may be put as an antiseptic; but that they write "reviews" and not theatrical "criticism." This situation is easily evidenced if an enterprising person should find the concern to read Bernard Shaw, Archer or Walkeley and compare them to their modern counterparts. The poverty of mind, soul and spirit that gaps the present generation of commentators from their predecessors should lead to despair if that plight did not require a quantity absent from his present day critical scene--hope. Rather than pray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critics Confounded | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

Married. Audie Murphy, 26, most decorated soldier of World War II, now a Hollywood cowboy (Bad Boy); and Pamela Archer, 28; he for the second time; in Dallas, four days after his divorce from Starlet Wanda Hendrix became final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 30, 1951 | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '31, secretary of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and other members will represent the Associated Harvard Clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant to Head Discussion on Arms At Associated Harvard Clubs Session | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Despite Archer's puzzling mumbo jumbo, the idea of enlistment excites Langrish, begins to seem a wonderful means of escape from his dull life. He misses the enlistment date, but while taking a walk one day, stumbles on to the battalion camp and is forced into service against his will. His complaints are brushed off. He sees Archer from time to time, but the captain, now a major and soon a colonel, seems not to recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's It Ail About? | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...promotion. His health returns; he can even enjoy cigarettes again. But when he tries to escape for a short visit to his mother, he is thrown into jail. Escaping again, he kills a military policeman, gets home to find his mother dead, the house a shambles. When Archer comes to get him, Langrish shoots him, but Archer forgives him, dies with Langrish's promise to "come through" because the enemy is on the march. Strangely happy, Langrish starts back for camp, "aware that past and future were fused at last in the living moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's It Ail About? | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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