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...Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering stars: the U.S. theater's Grande Dame Helen Hayes and Producer-Director-Playwright George Abbott as mankind's eternal Mr. and Mrs.; Musicomedienne Mary Martin as Mr. and Mrs. maid and humanity's eternal hedonist, raising hell in halcyon eras and doubting heaven in adversity...
Later, crossing the Atlantic together on their way to give addresses at Clark University in Worcester. Mass., Freud and Jung debated endlessly on psychological problems and analyzed each other's dreams. Freud cast Jung in the role of his intellectual son and heir. But the halcyon days were over. At Munich in 1912, Freud upbraided Jung for writing about psychoanalysis without mentioning the founder's name. The talk turned to Egypt's King Amenhotep IV as founder of a religion. "He is the one who scratched out his father's name on the monuments," said Freud...
...Finkelstein, who provided the philosophic leadership and subsequently became the Association's first (and only) president. During the summer the group flourished in the cranberry-laden countryside of the Cape, digging up roots and making the first steps in a highly complex art with improvised tools. When the halcyon summer days were over, the Association moved to New York, took on a Canadian member to become "International," and faced the sterner realitics of city living. A large studio on Fifteenth Street was rented, power polishing tools were purchased, and a professional wood finisher (whose services were often in demand...
...Washington last week a federal grand jury charged Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald with ten counts of perjury before a congressional investigating committee and a Washington grand jury. Influence-Peddler Grunewald, said the grand jury, had lied about his tax-fixing activities in the halcyon days of the Truman Administration. Sample charge: Grunewald swore before a House Ways and Means Subcommittee in 1953 that he had never discussed tax matters with his pal, Daniel Bolich,* although Bolich, then Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shared Grunewald's lavish hospitality and his Washington hotel suite for more than a year...
...more stretch than a sly grin puts on a freckle, Huck was right. The golden dream of boyhood, the soft summer's day that Mark Twain invoked for the world in Tom and even more richly in Huck, was in fact an almost total recall of the halcyon days of his own childhood...