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Leavitt and Peirce, last remnant of the "old Harvard," changed ownership this week for the third time in 72 years, but the traditions of the "gentleman's smoke shop" will continue almost unaltered...
...N.DOSH Ocala, Fla. Mai de Merde Sir: Much as I am flattered by your reference to me as "the high priest" of something, even something called ''merde'' [Oct. 1|, I must put in my two cents' worth of protest. The gentleman quoted, Dean Fitch, may have gone to Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, but he went to it with a pair of tin ears and came out of it with a tin horn to blow. Cat is the most highly, intensely moral work that I have produced, and that is what gives it power...
...parts. The first, little more than a series of character sketches, is laid in the home of one Dangle, portrayed ably but with a faintly incongruous accent by James Matisoff. Here, in addition to Puff, another aspiring author named Fret, played by Marc Brugnoni, and a gentleman-about-town called Sneer, portrayed by Robert Jordan, needle each other with polished skill. But Thomas Teal, as a horse-faced and impassive servant, all but steals the scene as the helps his master ceremoniously slip on a corset...
...autocrats brought to power by World War II was a stern but kindly old gentleman who had no claim to kingship, no ambition to tyranny, and no practice in governing. His realm was a miniature collection of former German areas annexed by Belgium and strung out along its border like charms on a bracelet. Under a six-power agreement signed in Paris in 1949, these territories, 7,789½ acres in all, were placed under a special and independent administration, pending a final peace treaty. The man chosen to head that administration was Major General Paul Bolle, grizzled and nearsighted...
...secluded cliffside villa near Naples early last week, scarcely an hour passed without the insistent jangle of the telephone or the arrival of a score of pleading telegrams, the arrival or departure of a pezzo grosso (big shot). Finally the white-haired old gentleman in the villa gave in -as he probably intended to do all along. And so, five days after his resignation as president of Italy's Constitutional Court (TIME, Oct. 1), shrewd Enrico de Nicola, 78, went back...