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...Nasser spoke triumphantly over Cairo radio: "Fate has stored this day for glory." Cairo radio itself waxed lyrical: "O Free and Glorious, it pleases the Egyptian radio at this historic moment, the moment of happiness, joy, dignity and freedom . . . to inform you . . . [that we have] cast away the last fetter on . . . glorious independence...
...Eliot lashed out at violent critics of his elective policy among the faculty. "To fetter this spontaneous diversity of choice by insisting that studies shall be taken in certain mixtures or groups. . .is as unnatural as it is unnecessary. . .Groups are like ready-made clothing cut in regular sizes; they never fit any concrete individual...
Behind London's Fleet Street, off bombed-out Fetter Lane, stands a terraced architectural absurdity known as Geraldine House. It is the home of the world's first great tabloid-and still its biggest. Every weekday, 3,700,954 London Daily Mirrors pour from the presses of Geraldine House; every weekend they print 4,006,241 Sunday Pictorials. Each Mirror reflects the tabloid wizardry of Humpty-Dumptyish Harry Guy Bartholomew, who is as retiring as his paper is blatant...
Naughty-Naught (book by John Van Antwerp; music & lyrics by Richard Lewine & Ted Fetter) is a hiss-the-villain burlesque of turn-of-the-century college life-a sort of Frank Merriwell at Yale served up with beer & pretzels-that had a nice off-Broadway run in 1937. But such things have gone on & on since 1937, they are all much alike, and each one, to get by, calls for stronger drinks and steadier drinking than the last...
Marriage Revealed. Eugene Goossens, 53, British-born composer-conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; and Marjorie Fetter Folkrod, 34; he for the third time, she for the second; in Paris, Ky. on April...