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...self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble is that there are two people who believe in him: his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly), who is too strong for her husband and too weak for her own good, and Broadway Director Bernie Dodd (William Holden), who has to fight both Elgins to give Frank a try at the lead in a new play...
This week Artzybasheff publishes his first book of drawings and paintings, As I See (Dodd, Mead; $7.50). With good-and ill-humored grotesqueries, he pokes at modern man's neuroses, pretensions and follies. But the hard core of his book is a gallery of his humanized turret lathes, planers and millers. Looking at his portrayal of dutiful monsters, complete with attentive eyes and busy hands, laymen as well as engineers usually can understand at a glance what both Artzybasheff and the machines have on their minds...
...theatrical reference book is the Best Plays series, begun in 1919 by the late Burns Mantle. Available this week: The Best Plays of 7955-7954 (Dodd, Mead; $5) edited-for the second season-by TIME'S drama critic, Louis Kronenberger. Since last season was memorable for many competent rather than outstanding plays, Kronenberger concedes that the ten best he selected were not markedly better than the next ten. He finally gave the accolade to four hit plays: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Tea and Sympathy, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Confidential Clerk; and to six financial failures...
Fiery cheerleader, Peter T. Lurch immediately suggested a male and female protest meeting at President's Dodd's House, but most students contacted thought the best thing to do would be to head for New York...
...Professionals in both parties will listen for reports from the First Congressional District (Hartford), which went Democratic by 24,508 in 1948 and by 23,540 in 1952. What they will watch for is the size of the Democratic margin. If Republican Wallace Barnes is giving Democratic Representative Tom Dodd a close race, G.O.P. countenances will light up all over the U.S. But Democrats will smile if the first half of polling places to report give Dodd a lead of 10,000, indicating that he will win by 20,000. In this year of an anticipated light vote...