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Under Separate Cover. In Janesville, Wis., the Parker Pen Co. received a note from a school principal: "I want to thank you for your kindness when we visited your splendid plant . . . I am returning two fountain pens two of my students picked up while we were making the tour...
...joyously accept the verdict of my party ... I shall possibly be enjoying the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night," said Henry Fountain Ashurst, "or the scarlet glories of her blooming cactus, the petrified forest which leafed through its green millenniums, and put on immortality 7,000 years ago." That was in 1940 when Orator Ashurst, defeated for reelection, was delivering his swan song in the Senate. Last week, 14 years later, Ashurst, lively and loquacious as ever at 79, was still living in Washington. Widower Ashurst is a perennially popular extra man at the parties...
Three Coins in the Fountain (20th Century-Fox) is another CinemaScope travelogue-this time making a wide-screen tour through Italy. Completely dwarfed by spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...
...armies. One writer described him in those days: "His chin veiled by a black beard, Chou would ride a bristle-maned Mongolian pony out through the stone arches of Yenan. His only badge of rank as he cantered through the yellow hills were the caps of two fountain pens peeping out of the breast pocket of his shirt...
...melodrama in which a scientist discovers a new source of power -this time by harnessing the heat of the sun. Being the work of Charles Morgan, it is meant as far more-though at times it comes off as far less-than a mere thriller. The author of The Fountain is a stylishly earnest writer who, while posing philosophic debates over when the new weapon should be used, offers cultivated characters who spout Shakespeare and Keats and dress regularly for destruction...