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BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. The first of four volumes takes Shaw from adolescence to the early years of fame and glamour in London. A tireless and brilliant correspondent who bridled neither mind nor emotions, he pursued subjects ranging from love to Fabianism to the evils of drink...
...state court, where he sued Webster instead of the Birch Society, the angry editor fared better. The defense tried the classic libel defense of truth. McGaw's editorial, the lawyers said, followed the Communist line, just as Webster had charged. Appearing as a star witness, Far-Right Commentator Dan Smoot agreed that the editorial was Communist lining, and the same point was made in a deposition from Martin Dies, onetime chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee. But then the defense quoted some words of praise for the John Birch Society from a California Senate subcommittee...
Those "other people" emphatically include Dan Haughton, 54, Lockheed's president since 1961. He and Gross behave, says Burden, "as if they were running a small partnership." Haughton, an Alabama coal miner's son, put himself through the University of Alabama by moonlighting in the mines, graduated ('33) as an accountant, and joined Lockheed in 1939. A prodigious worker who arises at 4 o'clock every morning, rarely gets to bed before midnight, he spends at least half of his time jetting about through Lockheed's 34-state corporate domain...
Shophomores Dan Magraw and Phil Chase also looked good, winning the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard sprint, espectively. Bill Shrout returned to the 100-yard freestyle after spending a few meets as a sprinter and won easily. Neville Hayes continued his unbeaten skein his season in the 200-yard butterfly...
...editor. Why not, then, celebrate the impeccable, imaginative editing that has produced Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters [Jan. 21]? Here the art of editing included the locating, sorting, choosing from and annotating the extant correspondence of history's most prolific letter writer, and creating a brilliant epistolary biography. Dan Laurence deserved more than merely having his name printed (in reduced type) with the descriptive matter at the head of your review...