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...dramatic" interludes are not-so-gentle burlesques of just such shows as King's Row. Playing all the roles themselves, they have produced Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons (The Leaky Refrigerator in the Efficiency Apartment Murder Clue), Jack Headstrong, the All-American American (now working on an interplanetary motorcycle), and Mary Backstage, Noble Wife ("There's usually an amnesia case or a brain operation going on"). Another character, played by Ray: Mary McGoon, a composite of all women commentators and home helpers (her cure for a cold: goosefat in an Argyle sock, hung around the neck...
...little reason to think, that Christians are a company of people committed to the turning of the world upside down with a view to setting it right side up ... When the church becomes militant again, when its strategies are more venturesome and courageous, when its social conscience is keener, when church membership costs something not only in cash but in time and labor and reputation, it will become again what it was at the beginning, a center of attraction for heroic souls...
From that point on, The Blue Veil, though acted and directed with praiseworthy restraint, grows increasingly maudlin. Succeeding episodes merely repeat Governess Wyman's plight in triplicate, each time heaping her with keener deprivations and sanctifying her with brighter nobility. Marriage beckons Jane a second time, and with it a good man's love, but she remains always a substitute mother, never a bride...
...board's three industrial members (Reuben Robertson Jr., president of Champion Paper & Fibre Co.; J. Ward Keener, vice president of B. F. Goodrich; Henry Arthur, manager of commercial research at Swift & Co.) were for permitting an 8% rise over wages in effect on Jan. 15, 1950. Such fringe benefits as pensions and production raises would be included in the 8%. A firm cutoff in wage boosts had to be made somewhere, or the whole anti-inflation program would come unhinged. Ching and the other two public members (Clark Kerr and John Dunlop, both economics professors and veterans of Government...
...another shot in the arm. Last week Playwright-Biographer Robert (Idiot's Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...