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Post Road (by Wilbur Daniel Steele & Norma Mitchell; Potter & Haight, producers) starts out as a folksy little drama about some harmless muttonheads who run a roadside boarding house on the highway between New York and Boston. The play is half over before the audience suddenly learns that the guest who said he was a doctor and the young woman who he said was his patient are really a pair of kidnappers and the baby whose delivery the doctor apparently effected, their tiny victim. Authors Steele & Mitchell (Mrs. Steele) are old hands in the theatre. So are Producers Potter & Haight (Double...
...York legislature which was under the thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...
...harmless social climber like genial Jimmy Thomas could ever have done such a thing was distinctly puzzling. He was not even present when members of the Royal Family signed the register at Westminster Abbey. Cabinet ministers like himself signed later at Buckingham Palace. Moreover, if he had managed to sign first, would either King George or Queen Mary have been likely to sign below James Henry Thomas...
What has been the result? In the majority of cases the campaigns have degenerated into personal dog-fights. But even the kick-'im-in-the-shins "You're a liar--you're another!" blustering that have resounded in New York are harmless compared to the insidious below-the belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow...
...already existing. The Liberal Club offers any undergraduate the chance to air his views; the Debating Council, although the subjects may be chosen by the group, is attempting to institute a certain amount of Parliamentary procedure; The Inquiry started from the premise that Harvard undergraduates wanted to Indulge in harmless forensics; and the Model League of Nations gives student representatives all the opportunity they desire in the way of involved regulations...