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...treasury is a small, dim office stacked high with files and catalogues of tapes and recordings, in Room G156 of the Library of Congress. Next door is a recording studio and a small listening booth. This is the physical plant of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress. The secretary of this treasury - as well as collector, personnel manager and salesman - is a quiet, greying scholar of 47 named Duncan Black Macdonald Emrich, author of, among other things, Who Shot Maggie in the Freckle...
Four score and ten years ago, a gunman jumped onto the stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, and fled, to be hunted down as an assassin. Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth; he was not playacting...
...script has dropped overboard many of the plot gimmicks that Playwright Arthur Laurents used as cogs for stage action. With them go some of the harsher truths about the career girl's character and therefore any possibility of comparing Hepburn's performance with that of Shirley Booth in the stage play. The movie is scarcely more than a charming idyl, and it ends only because Kate is convinced that "All my life I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go." This time, after a few days of dalliance...
...Booth Tarkington's day was obviously perilous enough, but there was one problem that no Tarkington hero ever had to face: Should he make plans for his military service, or should he simply wait a year and then register for the draft? Last week, as commencement drew near at schools and colleges across the U.S., it was, for thousands of boys, time for the big decision...
...From 6:30 to 7 that Friday evening, an agent was to stand outside the downtown Imperial Hotel with a carnation in his lapel, and the money in small bills packed in a light-colored suitcase. At 7 he was to enter a certain phone booth and wait. Frank showed the note to the police. At 7:08 p.m. a police agent was in the booth when the phone rang and a voice told him to go to another phone booth. There he found a typed note and a public locker key taped under the seat. In the locker...