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...year asked in Congress for a review of the poet's case. Spry Ezra did his best to cheer up the Congressman with a 75-minute discourse on everything from American Presidents (Herbert Hoover: "Any man can make errors in his youth"; Franklin D. Roosevelt: "He was a fool"); to the well-documented charges that Pound made treasonable broadcasts from Italy during World War II ("Damned lies-I never told the troops not to fight"). Unperturbed by the word flow, Burdick had admitted earlier that he had never read any of Pound's works: "I like things that...
Reflecting the academy's staid taste for realism, the painting that interrupted tea is a fool-the-eye portrait of a pretty girl. The artist who painted it is a onetime photo-reconnaissance officer named John Merton. He sat his subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret...
...people's mouths, but you won't even set up recommendations on what goes into their minds." A survey of European educational methods would cost about $50,000, and, he added with a touch of acid, "I know you people don't fool around with peanuts like that...
After the war, Alec resumed his prewar stride with scarcely a hitch, and somehow there seemed to be more muscle in it. In the 1946-47 season he played a deeply original Fool that struck the critics almost as strongly as Olivier's Lear, and he did a swingeing good De Guiche in Guthrie's Cyrano. About the same time he considered working in the movies ("On the stage I never seemed to have a chance to wear trousers"), and Director David Lean gave him the role of Herbert Pocket, the young swell in Great Expectations. The next...
...walked on lighter feet than portly, grey-haired Kermit Bloomgarden, 53, the first producer (The Music Man; Look Homeward, Angel] to win two Critics Circle awards in one season. He was also a walking contradiction to his own observation that "any man who becomes a producer is a damned fool." Two Bloomgarden hits of 1955 and 1956, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Most Happy Fella-also Critics Circle award winners-still have road companies going strong. "Together, the four shows net over $40,000 a week," grins Bloomgarden, "but, of course...