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...about the premises are a passel of New York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol...
...Frank F. Elliott, 62, advanced from senior vice president to president and chief executive officer of Crane Co.. one of the top U.S. makers of bathroom fixtures, to succeed John L. Holloway, who resigned because of poor health. Elliott joined Crane 33 years ago in Los Angeles, moved up to branch manager, to Western district manager, to vice president for all sales. President Elliott's first objective: halt Crane's three-year decline in sales and profits (1954 net: $5,800,000 v. $8,700,000 in 1953, $16,200,000 in 1951). To do this...
...Naval Reserve Officers' Training programs include both college and non-college men. By applying to the Chief of Naval Personnel before Nov. 15 of his senior year, a high-school senior can become a candidate under the Holloway Plan, which is designed to train officers for the Navy and Marine Corps as a supplement to Annapolis. Of the 23,000 who applied last November, only 1,800 students and 200 men from the fleet were accepted. These men get $50 a month during school term and midshipmen's pay on summer cruises...
...result, Mendelssohn is more the hero of the evening than Shakespeare; Moira Shearer's dancing far surpasses any actor's speech; the ass's head that Bottom wears is more entertaining than Stanley Holloway's Bottom. Only Robert Helpmann as Oberon can render Shakespeare's diction as well as dance, can become something fleet, mischievous, magical-and believably Shakespearean...
...much about it, so she had the run of the graduate school. "The whole thing was such a lovely joke," she recalls. "It didn't matter if I were dropped." She stayed on, and after getting her degree returned to England for a busy teaching and research life at Holloway College near London. When not teaching, or attending a class at the London School of Economics, she spent her time in the Records Office pouring over judicial documents that extended back to the time of Richard the Lion Hearted. She remembers it as "a delightful place, one met almost everyone...