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With his fellow members of the building committee, Industrialist Irwin made no hasty move towards modernism. Fundamentalist in thinking as well as in faith, they first set down their desires in a joint credo of architectural aims and religious belief...
Reason the new Tabernacle Church of Christ will be completely free of debt is its chief donor: massive, 74-year-old Columbus Banker William Glanton Irwin, director of a dozen corporations, one of those never-publicized U. S. millionaires...
Retreat to Pleasure (by Irwin Shaw, produced by The Group Theatre) is an embarrassing attempt to mix farce, comedy and lofty social sentiments. A beautiful Ohio WPA administrator takes a vacation in Florida, where she is wooed by a valve manufacturer, a playboy and a fatuous young leftist-one of those self-righteous kibitzers who continually feels obliged to tell other people exactly what is wrong with them and with society. He wins the girl, only to spurn her in order to become a sort of wandering heart-of-the-world...
...They are ominous, crucl, sad--the sinister adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk...
...even in the moment of defeat and annihilation "the inscrutable Walter Mitty"-- he may remain for us the symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary "I Am Waiting" and Mark Schorer's un-Jamesian "Portrait of Ladies...