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...much as 20,000 copies a day. Thus publicly put on the spot, police and health officials took hasty action. They shut down 56 saloons and restaurants pinpointed in the Daily News series, until they complied with the laws. But even with the heat on, Mooney and Bird found 32 drunks sprawled on Skid Row in a ten-minute walk. Police Commissioner John Prendergast threw up his hands: "What can we do? Arrest them all? The Bridewell [prison] is full." It looked as if it would take a lot more stories to stir Chicagoans into cleaning up Skid...
...bucolic Jacob's Pillow at Lee, Mass., summer dance fans and Manhattan critics crowded into the big wooden barn-studio to see the first performance of aging (57) Ted Shawn's The Dreams of Jacob, with music by Darius Milhaud. Critics found his new five-movement work both a little flat and a little obvious-Jacob dancing unimaginatively with Rachel, wrestling too literally with the dark angel. The verdict: back to the woodshed...
When opening-night New London townspeople first saw her three-year-old Yerma, a grim study of wifely frustrations, some were not sure how they liked it. Valerie's angular movements seemed almost as if they had been laid out with a carpenter's rule. Later, most found it easier to applaud her powerful adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying...
...found its justification in Section 1,304 of the Criminal Code, which makes unlawful the broadcast of "any lottery, gift enterprise or similar scheme." But what, precisely, was a lottery? To FCC it was any program on which a prize "of money or a thing of value is awarded to any person whose selection is dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance." The FCC ruling was aimed directly at the flourishing telephone giveaways (where names are found by chance in phone books), but it would eliminate most others as well...
Laurence, tipped off last spring by a chemist friend of the theoretical possibilities of the seed, read up on the subject and was deeply impressed by what he found. He discussed the matter with President Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already been ordered to Liberia to study the plants, collect seeds, and investigate the possibilities of large-scale cultivation there, or of transplanting to the U.S. After talking with Laurence, Ewing expansively declared that "this may be to chemistry what the atomic bomb was to physics," and asked...