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What, then, are the stories? 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...
Melvin H. Kaplan '42, Cambridge, Mass...
...College, Buckley Scholarships were awarded to the following: Thomas E. Cotter '40, Pasquale F. Frisoll '40, Jacoh J. Kaplan '40, Paul A. Moylan '40, George Quint '40, Donald T. Regan '40, Roland E. Shaine '40, Ely A. Shamieh '41, Paul K. Stumpf '41, George A. Sullivan '40, Chester J. Dziengielewski '40, and Robert T. Fitzgerald...
Aaron Copland (pronounced Copeland), 39, is the youngest son of a Brooklyn storekeeper who thought his name was Kaplan, until an immigration official wrote it to suit his own ears. Copland is tall, energetic, large-nosed, engagingly toothy. He began studying music at 13. In the early 19205, as a student at Fontainebleau (first pupil of famed Nadia Boulanger), he was a highbrow Gershwin, wading in the shallow stream of jazz. Then he plunged into the acid eddies of dissonance and atonality, emerged with the reputation of being one of the least understandable of U. S. musicians. Today, Copland...
Four years before, a homely, dark-eyed, colorless girl named Fanny Kaplan stepped up to Lenin when he finished speaking at Michelson's factory in Moscow, shot him in the lungs and neck. On the eve of the second All Union Congress, Lenin died, the conflicting groups he had held together split apart...