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...lucky little mice are brain children of Geoffrey Hall, a bustling Manchester textile manufacturer who decided a year ago that what the world needed was a bowdlerized version of Mother Goose. Last week 10,000 copies of New Nursery Rhymes for Old were selling in England like Christmas pies, at sixpence (7?) a copy...
...playing hob with the children. His own five-year-old daughter, he reported indignantly, had come home in tears after hearing about Mother Goose's three blind mice who had run afoul of the farmer's wife, had their tails cut off by a carving knife. Geoffrey Hall decided forthwith to turn out some nicer rhymes...
...winners, Geoffrey D. Bush '50 of Cambridge and Eliot House, Stephen J. Brademas '49 1G of South Bend, Indiana and Perkins Hall, Francis G. Steiner 1G of New York and 30 Ash Street, Cambridge, will receive grants of 500 pounds ($1,400) annually for study at Oxford University in England...
Last week they found a man to direct the job. Their choice: John Davenport, a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors since 1937, longtime friend of London Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther. Lean, intense and articulate, new Editor Davenport, 45, is a Yaleman ('26), yachtsman (he sails his own 45-ft. cutter) and an alumnus of the New York World...
Besides the article on drama, two other pieces in the latest Advocate are good. The first is a welcome innovation in the form of a column--as yet untitled--by Geoffrey Bush. Far and away the best writer in this issue, Bush comments, New Yorker-style, on Archibald MacLeish and the Brattle Players with humor and imagination. His columns will be something to look for in future issues. the new department could and should supplant the self-conscious, posturing "Notes from 40 Bow Street" column, which provides vital data about the contributors, such as that they are enrolled...