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William Addison Dwiggins, free-lance designer and typographical adviser of Hingham, Mass., America's preeminent designer of type faces (Caledonia, Electra, Metro and others), redesigner of periodicals (Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Century, Scribners, The Yale Review, American Mercury) book designer (A. A. Knopf, Harper Brothers, Yale University Press, Random House. The Limited Editions Club, Riverside Press, William E. Rudge, Harvard University). Master of Arts. Citation: "Typographical designer whose skill and creative imagination have left a lasting impress on the pages of our time...
...Shock." As if he had not enough troubles of his own, the unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
Eugene O'Neill scored a triumph the hard way, in Frankfurt, Germany. His Mourning Becomes Electra, once banned by the Nazis, was played there without an intermission. It took 5½ hours, got 15 curtain calls...
...Hall L. Hibbard, 42, the $58,500-a-year vice president and chief engineer. Witty, brilliant, he designed the Electra, Hudson, P-38 and Constellation...
Katherine Hepburn, long nettled by Hollywood's unimpassioned response to her idea of filming Eugene O'Neill's lengthy, incestuous Mourning Becomes Electra, lamented the fact of movie censorship. Los Angeles Times Drama Editor Edwin Schallert reported that "substantially this is what [she] told me": "Really deep consideration of the issue of sex . . . has no chance to be translated onto the screen under the present system of censorship. Yet at the same time, in musicals and other lighter entertainment, you find sex exploited in an intriguing, inveigling, 'peeking' sort of way that is much more...