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Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
...contending that American free enterprise has failed to solve the problems of unemployment, monopoly, and inefficiency, the Oxford representatives, Anthony N. W. Benn and David K. Harris supported the affirmative, asserting that nationalization of only 20 percent of industry has solved these problems for England...
Countering Benn's argument that centralization of economic policy extends both political and economic freedom of the people, William P. D. Bailey '46 of the Debate Council warned that nationalization can only mean socialism, and that just 20 percent but the entire economy would be controlled...
...other hand, the Oxford team said, Americans hold great misconceptions about England today. "Life in Great Britain is quite different from Great Britain in Life (magazine); where most Americans seem to get their ideas about the way we live, claimed Anthony N. W. Benn, captain of the Oxford team...
...Benn is on the executive committee of the Oxford University Socialist Club and is president of the Union Society. A member of the Labor Party for five years, he was elected to Parliament last year...