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Third creature in Sartre's drawing room "hell of other people" is Nadine Duwez as the postal clerk lesbian. She stumbles in her lines occasionally, and sometimes shouts too much, but she prowls Director Hesse's "arena" with greater confidence than the other two; her motions are perfect; and the great portion of her dialogue is excellent...
...afternoon a cluster of Communist officials turned up at the monastery and started ransacking it. When a female clerk tried to phone her superiors, a buxom Anna Pauker type snatched the phone out of her hands and tore it from the wall. The Communists did not stop to examine their loot: papers and mimeograph machines were dumped helter-skelter into sacks. Soon an angry crowd of pilgrims formed outside the building, and one official nervously summoned the police. Police arrived armed with gas masks and swinging truncheons...
...London, slim Molly Hiscox, a 21 -year-old clerk, entered the 440-yd. run as a last-minute reserve to fill out the field in a Britain v. Commonwealth meet, promptly got off in front, won by 12 yds. in 55.6 for a new world record...
Rene Tillich's short story "Point of View" and Ralph Hickock's poem "Song" are the two best pieces in the first issue of Voices. James Hill and Eleanor Kester both contribute some good poetry, although the bank-clerk-and-pin-collar ghost of T.S. Eliot appears to haunt Hill and most of the Voices poets...
...Then Kansas got into the act, when 29-year-old Mrs. Carmen Araiza talked of enchiladas and children for 93 hrs. 36 min. 9 sec. over Topeka's WREN. Ready to challenge the new champion was Mrs. Edith Fisher, 29, a clerk in a mailorder house in Rocky Mount, N.C., who had been briefly champion with 91 hours, and was raring to try again. Allowed Edith: "I feel as fine as a frog hair split four ways-and you don't get no finer than that. Lord willing, and the creek don't rise...