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Activity of the Dramatic Society has been stimulated by the registration of 50 candidates last night at a meeting behind the Grant Study. A search is under way for a new play, to be produced about the beginning of February, in collaboration with Beaver Country Day, a girl's school in Brookline with special dramatic facilities...
...strange pair in British public life have been Mephistophelean Lord Beaverbrook, 64, nominally Tory, and the editor of his deft, double-edged Evening Standard: Michael Foot, 30, cold, keen and Left. The Beaver has a weakness for tough guys, likes raising hell, hates softness in any form. Mike Foot hates old-line Tories. Last week the two deftly altered their two-year-old official relationship and deftly left their unofficial partnership untouched...
This time, Cassius Foot drove to the hilt his thesis that "the Right preferred Fascism to reform; the Left did not drive home their advantage when they had it"; that expedient toleration of Fascists is as criminal as Fascism itself. This time the Beaver could not look the other way; his fellow Cabinet members were angry. He dropped Foot, ostensibly for violation of a contract provision against outside writing. In the good clubs there were grunts of satisfaction...
Politicians wondered uneasily how many young Britons would find his logic good. Their uneasiness rose when they learned that the circulation-wise Beaver had worked a neat piece of journalistic legerdemain...
This week the Standard announced a new writer: Michael Foot, whose signed contributions will also appear in Beaverbrook's Daily and Sunday Express. But henceforth, the Beaver assumes no editorial responsibility for Mike Foot-and Mike Foot none for the Beaver...