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...Constitutional Committee proposed, first of all, that membership on the new Council be elected from the Houses, with regard for no Class save the Sophomores, who would be underrepresented in the Houses. This proposition evidently stuck in the full Council's craw, and this section, together with some others, has been sent back to the Committee with the recommendation that further consideration be given to Class representation. The Council, although seemingly nullifying some ten-weeks work of its committee, has actually taken a long range point of view in realizing that Class currents, totally disrupted by the war, will again...
Repertory Manhattan last week greeted its first large-scale repertory theater since Eva Le Gallienne's famed enterprise folded in 1933. This time Miss Le Gallienne was again a leading spirit, but in partnership with Director Margaret Webster (Hamlet, Othello) and Producer Cheryl Craw ford (Porgy and Bess, The Tempest). It had taken the three of them two years to raise almost $300,000 from 144 stockholders (they resisted Hollywood) and to gather a permanent company, including Walter Hampden, Victor Jory, Ernest Truex and Actress Le Gallienne herself...
When the Axis entered Athens some U.S. officials stayed behind. One day Nick's car brushed the fender of another carrying an Italian lieutenant and two privates. The lieutenant leaped from his car, slapped Craw. Again Nick did not wait for a declaration of war; the beautiful Italian uniform flopped in the dusty street. A German officer pulled Nick off the two privates...
...Casablanca last fortnight, Nick Craw volunteered to go ashore, try to persuade the French commander to surrender. After one fruitless trip, Nick tried again. Machine-gun bullets sang overhead. It was the excitement Nick liked. Then the bullets thudded into his body...
...brief A.P. dispatch from North Africa recorded the perfect epitaph for Nick Craw: "He was born...