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For one thing, fashion reporters were finally permitted to disclose the breathlessly awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full...
Most American readers may well dare to deny The Tower of Babel's genius; few will deny its supreme madness or be deaf to its screams and bellows. Its principal character, Dr. Peter Kien, is the world's prime authority on Chinese, Japanese and Indian manuscripts. As a...
Wrapped in a style as translucent and endearing as white tissue paper (with here & there a spangle), this playlet uses none of the stunting with language by which E. E. Cummings is known as the most wayward-as well as the freshest-of U.S. lyricists. But it definitely belongs on...
The cast that acts out the story is just about right. Dana Andrews is a bombardier captain who has lost his taste for both his soda-jerking job and his pretty, addle-pated wife (Virginia Mayo). Fredric March, after a stretch as a middle-aged infantry sergeant, now sees his...
At 21 years of age, the New Yorker was feeling grown-up and responsible. Until last week, it had generally managed to confine its twinges of social conscience to an occasional sententious One-World outburst on a page usually devoted to more urbane - or supercilious - matter. It seemed to believe...