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Jovial, deep-voiced, sixtyish J. Stanley Smith, a Philadelphia lawyer, called his garrulous group to order in the Penn Athletic Club one night last week. It was the 17th anniversary banquet of his exclusive Kingsley Club, restricted to stammerers. The program: speeches...
Stammering afflicts some 1,000,000 U. S. citizens, is difficult to cure because it usually springs from emotional maladjustment. A stammerer until he was 30, Lawyer Smith was impressed by the observation that stammerers have no trouble singing. One day when he heard Clergyman-Novelist Charles Kingsley, a stammerer, preach and sing without a hitch, he had an idea. Stammerer Smith cured himself, formed the Kingsley Club, enrolled Philadelphians and New Yorkers (mostly businessmen) and set out to cure them of stammering. He gave them deep breathing exercises and "inspiration." had them pronounce words slowly and rhythmically...
Last week in Philadelphia some 50 members of the Kingsley Club rose to their feet, spoke their pieces. Half-a-dozen took an extreme test before a radio microphone. Not a speaker faltered. Recited Philip Fairstone, 15, a high-school student: / try the teacher's patience, I start the pupils roaring; I break up the monotony Of classes that are boring. I am a stammerer...
...they, with Harold Clurman, founded an experimental studio under the auspices of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, three years later struck out for themselves as the Group Theatre. In the next five years the Group produced such unhackneyed plays as Paul Green's Johnny Johnson, Sidney Kingsley's Men in White, Clifford Odets' Awake & Sing!, Waiting for Lefty, Paradise Lost. Several of these plays were directed by Strasberg...
...Stock Exchange; 2) suspension for three years of his floor partners, Edwin D. Morgan Jr. and Henry D. Mygatt, because Exchange custom demands such a penalty even though they were exonerated of any knowledge of the criminal acts; 3) filing of bankruptcy petitions by Partners Mygatt and F. Kingsley Rodewald; 4) a plea of guilty by Richard Whitney to a second indictment for grand larceny, this one brought by New York Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. for pledging $109,000 worth of New York Yacht Club securities for his own loans; 5) revelation by Richard Whitney that his brother...