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...legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures of his day, and ruled much of the movie business with his special brand of sanctimonious piracy...
Even if he grants the excellence of the University's faculty, the Innocent will still have reservations. He can hold up the so-called Graustein formula of hiring, for instance, as a qualified candidate for the junk-heap, simply because it discourages so many younger teachers of quality from coming here and effectively prohibits giving tenure to other desirable scholars. But his more important reservation about this fine faculty concerns its relationship to the odious undergraduate body. The great scholars have every right to ignore undergraduates (it is sometimes difficult to understand why more of them do not) and squat...
Maybe Eisenhower likes junk mail, or maybe it's that he has someone else to open his mail for him. Or perhaps it's just that he's forgotten what pays its own way, and what doesn't. And we won't even say anything about Henry Luce. But as for us, we prefer mail from Philadelphia, or even New York, and wish that bulk mail could be discouraged...
...traditionally devoted to the human figure is to be practically alone among young contemporary sculptors. Most of Baskin's fellows base their sculpture on yesterday's innovations, shaping caved-out, semi-human figures a la Moore, skeletal ghosts a la Giacometti, allusive combinations of metal junk a la Stankiewicz, or totally abstract welded armatures a la David Smith. Baskin, a lone voice in this spiny desert, argues that "the only true originality any art can have is originality of content. If I tried to find a new way of doing sculpture, I'd be like any other...
...Carry, a young wastrel, volunteers to act as go-between, but what he goes between are Silver Vase's sheets. Lady Li, who has been giving Cash-and-Carry a private course in flower arrangement, is outraged, and so is Pi. The lovers escape on a passing junk, but fall afoul of pirates...