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...With amateur authors, this sort of just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression by an occasional broad and incongruous touch. The borderline between burlesque and satire...
...brave soul and Minnesota is a safe distance from Rockefeller Plaza. Why not entitle your "Letters" column with a more lengthy, but obviously more appropriate, heading-"These are the souls who try TIME...
...minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead, and ten passengers were ready for Altoona, Pa. hospitals, still crowded by victims from the Red Arrow...
Robert Flemming and Jane Baxter are more than perfect as Algy and Cecily, but the brave attempts of Pamela Brown, miscast in the part of Gwendolyn, are somewhat negated by her unfittingly low voice. The decor by Motley is more than suitable: it rivals the more famous work of Cecil Beaton on this year's "Lady Windermere...
Typical of the brave attitude taken by the ladies in the face of a male threat to their feminine capabilities was that of Elanie Limpert, Radcliffe '47, who swallowed her pride and announced, "Shaw probably knows what he's doing. I have great faith in the Bard...