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...Father Miller built his tabernacle there and won wide fame by convincing a large Boston congregation that: "The end of the world will surely be in Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Three." Unfortunately for the prophet, in 1844 he had to revise the calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon...
Norman Raymond Frederick Maier is a man who has made his name & fame by driving rats crazy. For his experiments in rat frustration, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1938 awarded him a $1,000 prize. Now Professor Maier, a University of Michigan psychologist, believes that his studies of rats have led him to a solution of the No. 1 contemporary problem in human frustration: how to cure a defeated Germany of the disease of Naziism. Though his plan leaves many a question unanswered, it is a stimulating contribution to the simmering debate on a generous...
Killed in Action. Army Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis Dickson, 47, one-time "Tex Rickard of Europe" who won fame and fortune when he built big, bumbling Primo Camera into an international attraction; in an air battle over France last July (not announced until last week...
From his cool and shabby room behind the mellowed walls of Rome's Convent of the Little Company of Mary, the 80-year-old philosopher spoke sparingly last week of things beyond the noise of war. George Santayana's fame as a poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan) made the newsmen listen to him respectfully. The old philosopher's aloof attitude was bound to irritate men who were very near to war. But his words were worth listening...
Tallulah Bankhead probably takes the leading role, but all of the characters, including Canada Lee, who puts in a masterful performance, and William "Smacksie" Bendix of "Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again...