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After discovering the manuscript in the archives of Houghton Library, the theatre group learned that the play is slated for a New York production late in the spring. Nevertheless, Maxwell Perkins '06, literary executor of the Wolfe estate, gave the student thespians the rights for a pre-Broadway showing...
...that anything Russia does is manifestly right and good. Molotov denounced U.S.-British "imperialists" as "new claimants to world domination," railed against "dollar democracy" and "money bags," charged (falsely) that the Baruch Plan sought a U.S. monopoly on the atom bomb. He displayed colossal but typical impudence when, as executor of one of the world's most brutal foreign policies, he charged certain circles in the West with using "extreme methods of pressure and violence." His speech was far sharper than Stalin's own brief answers. At week's end Molotov found it necessary to issue...
Anita Loos, literary executor of the golddigger (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat, sexy, appealing and clean. The bobby-soxers are gross . . . they are not alluring...
Wilmoth Houdini (real name: Edgar Leon St.-Clair) calls himself King of Calypso, a title sought after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...
Houdini's method is to rile his opponent by musical insults. He won his first war by being so insulting to two opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...