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...worked on the cover story, Researcher Mary Vanaman, who undertook an impressive survey of the facts, figures and philosophies of middle age, and Boston Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens, who interviewed Miss Bacall, are both above the average for their categories. So are Editor Cranston Jones, 48, and Writer Ted Kalem...
...Kalem is TIME's theater critic, but since Broadway is currently in its summer doldrums, he is lending his talent to other sections (he was responsible for the recent Essay on the state of the modern theater). His career has been varied and productive. He was born in Maiden, Mass., of Greek parents from Asia Minor, and his first language was Greek. He majored in sociology at Harvard ('42, cum laude) and planned to go to Harvard Law School, but World War II interfered. After 3½ years as an infantryman, mostly in the Pacific (five campaigns, Bronze...
After he came to TIME in 1950, he wrote book reviews and some memorable cover stories-among them Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak, Tennessee Williams. Always aisle-struck, Kalem first dreamed of being a drama critic when he was 16, was delighted when he finally fulfilled that ambition at TIME in 1961. Equally pleased, apparently, were his fellow first-nighters ("an unruly band of middle-agers"), who have twice elected him president of the New York Drama Critics' Circle...
...Thank you for employing and publishing a theater critic who exhibits acute sensitivity to the medium, keen judgment of both general and particular values, and a capacity for genuine enthusiasm. Your Ted Kalem is specific about what he likes and dislikes; consequently, one can learn much from his reviews without having to agree with their evaluations (though I admit to the latter tendency...
...praise is triggered by Mr. Kalem's characteristically incisive comment on Osborne's Luther and Anouilh's The Rehearsal in your issue of Oct. 4. He could be mistaken for no other critic, though his unique excellence is akin to that of our greatest theater critic, the late Stark Young...