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...tall (6 ft. 2 in.) burly (220 Ib.) recruit with a mouth-filling name reports this week to the Air Corps station at Maxwell Field, Ala. The recruit: 20-year-old Egon Ludwig Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, U. S.-born son of Harvardman "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playing pal of Adolf Hitler. Father "Putzi," who jumped from the German frying pan just in time, landed in a Canadian concentration camp. His son, a U. S. citizen, left his Harvard class for a three-year hitch in the Air Corps...
...secret of the show's success was given away by the raves of Manhattan's critics over its heroine. Said Richard Watts Jr. (New York Herald Tribune): "Lady in the Dark demonstrates with fine conclusiveness that Miss Gertrude Lawrence is the greatest feminine performer in the theatre." Wrote sobersided Harvardman Brooks Atkinson (Times): "As for Gertrude Lawrence, she is a goddess: that's all." John Mason Brown (Post) merely referred to her personality as "a welcome substitute for the Life Force...
...Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman ('22), who publishes and edits the monthly Yankee, at Dublin...
Boston's Institute, nursed from its founding by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, was weaned two winters ago, a year after Jim Plaut became its director. A Harvardman (1933), he took art as a snap course. Since then Jim Plaut has had two great ambitions: to get permanent quarters for the Institute; to put on the first big Rouault show in the U. S. The quarters he got from Mrs. Joel Goldthwait, mother of Nathaniel Saltonstall (first cousin of Governor-re-elect Leverett Saltonstall), who is the Institute's president and Boston's most eligible...
...more than usual interest to U. S. audiences is the appearance of John Lodge. Grandson of Massachusetts' famed isolationist Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of its current, handsome Senator of the same name, Lodge is a former Harvardman and Manhattan lawyer with a brief, obscure Hollywood movie career...