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Foss: The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Burton Trimble, tenor; Ruth Biller, soprano; Paul Ukena, bass-baritone, and others; Frederic Kurzweil, pianist; Lyrichord, 2 sides LP). Brilliant young (28) Lukas Foss's adaptation of Mark Twain makes Foss look like one of the brightest hopes of American opera. Well done by the enterprising After Dinner Opera Co. cast which gave the work its Manhattan premiere (TIME, June 19), The Frog even jumps smartly on records. Recording: good...
...that the Attorney General may not list.an organization as subversive without a hearing. This was in the case of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., and the International Workers Order, Inc., all tagged as Communist-front groups. Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the majority opinion, held that the Attorney General's listing was "arbitrary...
...years of Smith's history, there have been five president's all male. When Laurenus Clark Seeyle began his work in 1875 the community was comprised of six faculty members, 14 students, and 13 acres of land. Through the regimes of Marion LeRoy Burton, William Allan Neilson and Herbert Davis the college continued to grow, and grow until it reached its present state, the largest woman's college in the world...
Many who follow the macroscopic Explorations of George Burton are likely in the end to go scudding off with Economist Schwartz to the snugger valleys of the damfool wilderness. For Author John F. Wharton, Manhattan lawyer who made a name for himself with The Theory and Practice of Earning a Living, has now taken on a far more staggering job: a sum-up of modern physics and psychology, and an answer to modern man's anguished cry: "Where do I fit in? What is there to fit into...
...seem simple and straightforward by using the Philip Wylie technique of creating a few plain-talking "characters" and letting them unburden themselves to Whartonesque psychiatrists and sages-thus giving a coat of fictional jam to his strictly nonfictional pills. Chief of these characters is successful, middle-aged Businessman George Burton; chief of George's problems is simply that "for months he had been sinking into deeper and deeper depression . . . was alternately bored and afraid . . . Hardly a day passed that the thought did not cross his mind . . . that he wished he were dead...