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Rene Tillich's short story "Point of View" and Ralph Hickock's poem "Song" are the two best pieces in the first issue of Voices. James Hill and Eleanor Kester both contribute some good poetry, although the bank-clerk-and-pin-collar ghost of T.S. Eliot appears to haunt Hill and most of the Voices poets...
...gift of Procter and Gamble to Harvard is of special significance to the United States, to Harvard, and to that mammoth endeavor of our time, the Program for Harvard College. It represents the growing awareness of private industrial concerns that their own welfare--and the country's--can be best served by donating money to private universities to carry on their educational projects...
Married. Miyoshi Umeki, 24, doll-like (5 ft. 2 in., 100 lbs.) Japanese cinemactress, who last March received an Academy Award as 1957's best supporting actress for her performance in Sayonara; and Frederick Winfield Opie, 34, TV associate director; she for the first time, he for the second; in Van Nuys, Calif...
...philosophizing ("We're just entries on paper," mourns Voigt. "We're not human beings"). Chief honors for giving The Captain the moderate amount of appeal it has go to Veteran Heinz Rühmann, whose shuffling, beagle-faced portrayal of Voigt won him last year's best-actor award from the German government...
...best two stories are by Tibor Dery. and his theme is the facelessness of oppression in totalitarian life. In Love, the guards at a Budapest prison inexplicably turn loose one "B," who has been in prison for seven years. But his crime is not known (it was "political"). On his discharge papers the line that should explain the reason for his release is left blank. How common such cases are in Hungary is made clear by the taxi driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when...