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In 1947 he and Louis Coxe wrote the first draft of Billy Budd. Neither remembers who first suggested it since both had specialized in Melville as undergraduates. After the Experimental Theatre produced the play in '49, they rewrote it for an interested Broadway producer. "We did it in six days...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Genial Hermit | 5/5/1953 | See Source »

After two years of living and working in Southern California (for the Ford Foundation). ex-Chancellor Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago had begun to feel that he was not the same old Hutchins: he was suffering from an "intellectual deterioration" that suggested itself by "a kind of involuntary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Hutchinsland | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Contented Trader. The 1953 version of the White Sox is Richards' idea of what a ball club should be: hustling, bustling and fiery. It lacks heavyweight hitting, but will try to make up for it by defensive skill, tight pitching, and speed on the base paths. Richards was more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Chicago Idea | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Certainly any story appearing in the Advocate's pages might be criticized, but there is no reason why this cannot be done intelligently; no reason why we should not be told wherein and in what way the author is at fault. Mr. Halberstam makes the attempt in his discussion (sic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARE'S REPLY | 3/24/1953 | See Source »

But no amount of apology or police diligence could undo the damage, since the bomb could not have served Soviet leaders better if they had touched it off themselves. It would have been normal for the Kremlin to accept Israel's apologies: in 1927, for example, when a White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Diplomatic Explosion | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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