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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS was originally scheduled to be on TIME'S cover a week earlier. But, as TIME'S Theater Critic Ted Kalem wired him: GLENN AND WILLIAMS WERE ON SAME LAUNCHING PAD. GLENN MADE IT. WILLIAMS ORBITING FOLLOWING WEEK...
This week's cover story is a good opportunity to introduce our theater man, who last fall replaced Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S distinguished first-nighter for 23 years. Kalem, 42, spent the preceding eleven years as a book reviewer for us, and will be remembered for his cover stories on Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak and James Gould Cozzens, as well as a memorable piece on Bertolt Brecht...
...wanted to be a drama critic for as long as he can remember: "I was aisle-struck, not stagestruck.'' Born in Malden, Mass., of Greek parents of Anatolian origin, Kalem spoke Greek before English. At Harvard, he remembers being thrilled by the late Ted Spencer reading Shakespeare aloud, and Hamlet remains his favorite play. One month after emerging from Harvard (A.B. '42, cum laude), Kalem was in the Army. With the 24th Division in the Philippines, he won the Bronze Star under gunfire "for staying on the telephone for 17 hours when the Japs seemed...
...time," writes Book Reviewer Ted Kalem on page 100 of this issue, is "a metronome of disaster." Small t, of course. His discussion concerns the savagely humorous themes of the late German playwright Bertolt Brecht, and the entire Books section this week consists of his report on a new edition of seven Brecht plays. Although he has been reviewing books for 13 years, including TIME cover stories on Shakespeare, Boris Pasternak and James Gould Cozzens, 41-year-old, Harvard-educated Ted Kalem is equally comfortable writing about playwrights, the theater and the stock market (he once did a financial advisory...
...Christopher, Champ Clark, Richard M. Clurman, Donald S. Connery, George Daniels, Henry Bradford Darrach, Jr., Nigel Dennis, Thomas Dozier, Osborn Elliott, William Forbis, Rebecca Franklin, Bernard Friwell, Manon Gaulin, Ezra Goodman, Eldon Griffiths, Alan Hall, Sam Halper, Carter Harman, Barker T. Hartshorn, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Theodore E. Kalem, Douglas S. Kennedy, Essie Lee,' Byron D. Mack, Peter Mathews, Robert McLaughlin Martin O'Neill, Richard Oulahan, Jr., Robert Parker, George B. Post, Richard Seamon, Mark Vishniak...