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Last week Jack got what Jack wanted, but it took an awful lot of desire. The course this year was Scotland's Muirfield links beside the Firth of Forth, a seaside torture pit that resembles Verdun after the battle. Bunk ers like shell craters pock the narrow fairways, and the thick, encroaching rough grows three feet high in spots. "You need a search warrant to get in that stuff," complained South Africa's Harold Henning. Adding to the misery, the howling winds dried the already fast greens to billiard-table speed. "It'll be the same...
...Reston does think about these questions. At the very beginning of World War II he broke British censorship to report the sinking of a British cruiser by a German submarine in the Firth of Fourth. By 1945 he was describing the incident as an error in judgement. He still does...
...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
Besides Miss Firth and Rosen, I liked Richard Cooke, as a henchman of the demagogic Southern senator who wants to dispossess the poor but tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...
Signing the manifesto were: G. Octo Barnett, research associate; Stanley Cobb '10, Ballard Professor of Neuropathology; Gene W. Dalton, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior; Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William H. Forbes '23, lecturer on Physiology; Lester Grinspoon, instructor in Psychiatry...