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Good Eye, Good Ear. In the slow-moving Times hierarchy, Drew Middleton has shot up fast. Syracuse University's School of Journalism refused to grant him his degree because he couldn't type fast enough (he got the degree later when he became a famous son). After two years of newspaper work in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., he went to A.P. as a sportswriter in 1937. He asked to be a foreign correspondent, but was sent to England in 1939-to cover sports. When the war came, he was the youngest (25) reporter accredited to the British Expeditionary Force...
...paper has had its share of famous reporters (Frank O'Malley, Will Irwin, Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...
Some time before the election of Juan Domingo Peron to the Argentine Presidency, the U.S. State Department decided that a Peronista government was intolerable to American interests. Working from this premise, Spruille Braden issued the famous Blue Book, which catalogued the Nazi leanings of the Strong Man and the wartime sins of his militarist clique. The Blue Book failed miserably to swing Argentine opinion, while at the same time it boomeranged toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point...
...months the excitement along Broadway had been mounting. At the tail end of a lively but not very lustrous season there loomed one of the brightest theatrical events in years: England's world-famous Old Vic was arriving for six weeks of repertory, with such topnotchers in its cast as Laurence Olivier (TIME, April 8) and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Dec. 31). On the morning last month when the box office first opened, double lines of ticket buyers stretched for blocks; and by the evening last week when the first curtain rose on Henry IV, Part I, the advance sale...
...wildness, plus new restraint, sadness and subtlety. He is used more centrally than before, and this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such irrefutable conviction that even the outrageously bad ones are funny. (Sample: "Your life is hanging by a thread." "So are my pants...