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Kerr played the title role in "Billy Budd" at the Brattle last year, and also starred in "A Sleep of Prisoners." Wager had top billing in the Brattle's production of "The idea...
...Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather reporting. Cf The Silent Land's hero is one of the finest, go-gettingest he-men in contemporary writing-a Winsor version of Lanny Budd. Miles Morgan's eyes were "green, speckled with bronze." He had "fieriness . . . gaiety and a sense of poetry in everything he did"-which included reaching under Heroine Amoret's sweater and giving her a sharp pinch. But Miles is at his best when he reaches behind the Iron...
Westinghouse stopped production of refrigerators, ranges, washing machines and other appliances; the Budd Co., maker of railway cars, lopped 10,500 off its 20,000-man payroll. In many another company, personnel men feverishly juggled vacation schedules to coincide with diminishing steel stocks. U.S. production has been so disrupted that even after the strike is settled it will be weeks before production gets back to normal...
...Italy. In fact, the cheaper Lambrettas made by the Innocenti Co. now outstrip the Vespa in sales. But this week Piaggio cut the Vespa's price in Italy to $240, enough to undersell the comparable Lambretta model. (Piaggio also is making railroad cars under license from Budd Co., aircraft engines, propellers, light planes...
...dozen years have provoked such a burst of prompt, wide and heart-searching reviews. Verdicts have come not only from the professional book reviewers but from philosophers, historians and freelance intellectuals. They compared Whittaker Chambers (favorably or unfavorably) to St. Augustine, Rousseau, Casanova, Lincoln Steffens, Ulysses S. Grant, Lanny Budd. Adjectives chased one another across the pages: "terrible," "penetrating," "poignant," "unbelievable," "great," "boring," "thrilling," "overwritten," "embarrassing," "fascinating." Whatever their outlook, almost all reviewers agreed that the book was an event in contemporary history, and ought to be read...