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...Paul Bowles, produced by The Theatre Guild) is an allegory about Democracy and the dangers thereto. A pretty young lady named Liberty Jones is very ill in the home of her Uncle Sam, an amiable but confused businessman. She is menaced by Three Shirts of Brown, Black and Red hue, who keep appearing on the balcony outside. No remedy for her has been found by four pompous doctors called Medicine, Letters, Divinity and Law. At length, however, Liberty is raised from her sickbed, loved and defended by Tom Smith, a very high-flying aviator...
...bugs, which are small and of a reddish, hue, disappear during the day but at night pay calls to the Yardlings in their beds. Many of the students have taken kindly to the little things, but one Freshman, tired of squirming in his bed all night has recently left Matthews in high dudgeon and taken up residence at Apley Court...
Student opinion at Harvard is customarily a multicellular organism that sprawls over every hue of belief. Only in periods of great crisis does that opinion galvanize into a unicellular entity. That crisis is at hand. The administration of the University must take action...
...late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911. But Joseph Pulitzer could see through skulduggery, no matter how dark its hue, could sight a dirty deal a mile away. He made the Post-Dispatch one of the most valiant crusaders of an era rich in righteous journalism...
...week's end the San Francisco press had raised such a hue & cry that Dr. Heil's superior, Architect Timothy Ludwig Pflueger, ordered the picture hung again. Said he: "We have been unable to verify reports that the Navy objected." Said the Navy (an aide to Admiral Arthur Hepburn) : "What fools we'd be. We've learned from earlier foolish Navy squawks against other Cadmus paintings. It does us no good and merely gives the artist publicity." Said Paul Cadmus in Manhattan: "I don't think it libels the Navy. Nobody expects or wants...