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Hulking, whisper-voiced Sherman Hoar Bowles, 56, is a big man in Springfield. Mass. As lantern-jawed as his cousin Chester, he is a successful publisher, the head of Atlas Tack Corp., a real-estate operator, a dabbler in airlines-and a man who thrives on trouble. He has been sued by the Treasury for gold-hoarding, pursued by squads of tax collectors, stalked by labor unions. All have found him a baffling adversary, but an affable...
Doris Duke ("Richest Girl in the World") Cromwell, of late an ink-dabbler, explained why in Rome: "I . . . feel definitely drawn to journalism as a means of self-expression." Hopeful of getting into professional ranks, she said: "At one point I thought I'd use a nom de plume but I reconsidered, because life is complicated enough...
Foolish Notion (by Philip Barry; produced by the Theater Guild). A worldling and a wit, Philip Barry is really at home only in a drawing room. But, as a dabbler in philosophic fantasy, he is also a little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...
...current popular view of Hopkins is that he is a onetime social worker and youthful dabbler in Socialist ideas who has now turned conservative. Business Week, which knows a conservative when it sees one, recently praised him as "one who began kicking New Dealers in the teeth long before Roosevelt...
...nurses in Cry Havoc are a quiet, middle-aged captain (Fay Bainter), a lieutenant (Margaret Sullavan) who, though fever-ridden, refuses to quit, a veteran volunteer (Marsha Hunt), and a rather luscious, well-intentioned lot of newcomers whose chief qualifications for the job are their good intentions and a dabbler's acquaintance with first aid. Short of medicine, food, sleep and experience, they do what they can when the Japanese bomb their hospital, strafe their open wards...