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Financier Allan P. Kirby, boss of Alleghany Corp. since the death of Robert R. Young almost two years ago, got a telephone call last week from another big moneyman. The caller: Boston's Abraham M. Sonnabend, the real estate wheeler-dealer who heads Hotel Corp. of America, Botany Industries, and a fistful of other companies. Could they set up a meeting some time later in the week? Kirby knew why. For months, Sonnabend and a group of associates had been quietly buying Alleghany stock, and they owned some 700,000 shares, or about 14% of the common stock outstanding...
Last year, the varsity roared back from this, its most crushing defeat to score a 28-0 win over the hapless Eli eleven. Quarterback Charlie Ravenel, a brilliant play-caller and runner all day long, gained 105 yards on 16 carries and put the Crimson ahead to stay by going over from the five as the gun sounded to end the first half. Chet Boulris, Larry Repsher, and Albie Cullen, all of whom will see action tomorrow, scored second-half touchdowns as Harvard won The Game for the first time in four seasons...
...second part of The Glass Menagerie a Gentleman Caller finally enters the Wingfield home in a St. Louis slum, after half an evening of preparation for him, and is left alone with the crippled, morbidly shy young girl he had been invited there to meet. Trying to interest him in the collection of little glass animals that is her only solace, she offers him her favorite, saying, "Here's an example of one, if you care to see it." In the current H.D.C. production, she takes at this moment a quick, frightened, intensely poignant glance...
...Glass Menagerie has nearly no plot (first the Gentleman Caller is awaited, then he is there, then he is gone); it is all futility and grief in a shabby-genteel apartment, where Amanda, a woman uprooted from her way of life, her daughter Laura, who knows nearly no one and fears everyone she does not know, and Laura's restless brother Tom, try to escape their cul-de-sac, and help one another out of it, in every way they can. Uniquely, perhaps, among Tennessee Williams' major works, this one has no dominating masculine figure to bring...
Peter Gesell's performance as Jim the Gentleman Caller presents something of a problem to the critic. Mr. Williams describes Jim as "a nice, ordinary young man," but he has written the part as a symbol of the expansive American spirit that has destroyed the world of gentility and graces in which Amanda Wingfield tries so desperately to live. If Jim occasionally comes across as crudely caricatured, like an American (like the American) in a British book or movie or play, it is largely because Mr. Williams has written him that way, and because Mr. Hancock has made him sprawl...