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...Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production of A Fable and The Town. Also editor of Sherwood Anderson, James Michener, Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, Budd Schulberg and Irwin Shaw, Commins long directed Random House's Modern Library series, also assembled the Selected Writings of Washington Irving (1945), Selected Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (1947), Basic Writings of George Washington (1948), Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952), and (with Robert N. Linscott...
Railroaders themselves are increasingly skeptical of the value of lightweight trains for main-line service. The Pennsylvania, after experimenting with lightweight trains between Washington and Philadelphia, ordered six new light electric cars of a more conventional design from Budd Co. for commuter service. The Chicago & North Western checked lightweight trains, but instead ordered 13 conventional-weight cars last week from Pullman-Standard. Surveying the trend, N. C. Dezendorf, boss of General Motors' electromotive division, admitted: "Several years ago, when lightweight trains were first discussed, there was tremendous enthusiasm among railroads for them. I was turning down orders. There...
Following the Budd Schulberg story on which the film is based, Kazan follows the great man from a jailhouse to a penthouse, and the trip is sometimes fun. Kazan takes time to inspect such scenic wonders of TV as the reason-why-sell, the inverse commercial, the collective think, the built-in crowd. He also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power...
Died. B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, 65, oldtime film producer (Wings), first Academy Award winner, sometime Paramount Pictures executive credited with introducing Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple, father of Novelist Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg; of a stroke; at his home on Key Biscayne...
Whereas in 1948 a polished production of Troilus and Cressyda could be seen for $.90, two years ago the cheapest seat in the house for that remarkable production of Macbeth was $1.20. And while in 1952 one could have seen a professional production of Billy Budd, by the Brattle Players, for $.80 and a full length production of Shaw's Candida for $.60, one now is forced to pay $1.50 to scramble for a chair in the Adams House lower common room to see students playing Uncle Vanya. Just five years ago the Harvard Theater Group presented Coriolanus with admission...