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...paladin of justice, Van Heflin is an ingratiatingly drawly but volcanically eruptive goodguy, and Larry Gates makes an icy fork-tongued reptile of the man whose politics are somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan. But since the play is rigged for the triumph of good over evil, it is no more intellectually honest than a play that paints the world pitch black. Libel merely caters to an audience's smug self-righteousness, scarcely good growing weather for an examination of moral conscience. Playwright Denker ringingly declares for a responsible free press and due process of taw, which...
Scott Fitzgerald would today be forgotten as a Princetonian playboy who was a silly young man in a silly time-the '20s-were it not for the fact that he was a silly young man of genius. It was his genius to vibrate like a tuning fork to the music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort...
...Businessmen should not try local customs unless they are sure of themselves. "If you really cannot cope with chopsticks, ask for a spoon and fork...
...wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start the day with a brisk half-hour hike up the Roaring Fork or Castle Creek for a couple of hours of trout fishing in crystalline, pine-shaded streams, Aspen fosters one of the great classic ideals: Mens sana in corpore sano...
...Little Scare. Otis also manufactures escalators (it is pushing a new one with glass balustrades), moving walkways, fork trucks and bowling-alley pin setters. But elevators account for 88% of the company's business-and Otis never stops trying to improve on them. All of the elevators Otis makes today run without operators (at a saving of $8,000 per car a year). They are so electronically sophisticated that they will not close their doors on a passenger (though they may scare him a little by trying to), automatically program themselves for varying morning and evening traffic, and usually...