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...have just been shown Jacob Brackman's "Silhouette" of me in CRIMSON Dec. 14. It is not especially thoughtful of Mr. Brackman to report the carefully considered argument of a person on a sober issue as if he were reviewing the performance of an actor of a stage, and then to say, "Mr. Goodman has chosen to become a personality." I have made no such choice. Supposing Mr. Brackman were wrong in his perception and was projecting a TV-ideology of his own, or perhaps some anxiety that he felt during the evening, would he not, on reflecting, be ashamed...
...male to homosexual acts exposes him to "inevitable emotional damage," so the seducer is inevitably "irresponsible." Oh, I suppose so. It is also often damaging to hold back and effectually reject. In life you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. (But Jacob's tone sounds a little like the "obsessional heterosexuality" that Ferencxi claimed made peace and fraternity impossible in Europe!) My weary opinion is, as Professor Carlson used to say at Chicago, "It's joost living that wears the organism out; these other vices don't count for so much." I wonder...
...Died. Jacob J. Shubert, 86, last of the three boys from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters...
...mind of the American Indian the Great White Father meant the President of the U.S. Not necessarily so, says John Terrell. During the 1820s and 1830s, at any rate, the Great White Father was a stumpy man with beaked nose, pursed mouth and billowing chins named John Jacob Astor...
...Which later lent its name to New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, originally built by William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, Astor's great-grandsons...