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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a late start last season, the triumvirate sponsored two plays: T.S. Eliot's Confidential Clerk, Liam O'Brien's The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Neither lost money; Clerk stirred up a critics' controversy. This year Producer Whitehead will present Clifford (Golden Boy) Odets' new The Flowering Peach, plus a pair of plays still in the works. With three Broadway theaters leased, Stevens & Co. will have a sure home for Saint Joan when it gets to Manhattan in April, will have no trouble booking its riskier productions. More important, if Joan's tour (weekly cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Continuity, Inc. | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

There are also two bankers. Wil liam Shacklette Ray, Loomis School, is in the credit department of the First National Bank of Memphis, Tenn. And William Elliot Vauclain, of Haverford School, is now an assistant trust investment officer for the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co., in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (by Liam O'Brien) has a likable air and funny interludes, but its fun is fitful, so that the play must be described as not a bad evening rather than a really good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

While he was on the 'Poon staff, Wil- liam Randolph Hearst '88 became business manager. According to Santayana, many students resented Hearst's habit of smoking long cigars while strolling through the Yard; they considered it a tasteless exhibition and a showing off of his wealth. Hearst did, however, provide the Lampoon with a luxurious new building, and Santayana notes that "he could sell...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...whole play by Sean O'Casey. The Shadow of a Gunman, and a handsomely turned short story by Elizabeth Bowen, An Evening in Anglo-Ireland, bring in the iron theme of revolution. The book rounds out with stories by Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty and a dozen others, a couple of eloquent political manifestoes, a little theologizing, a winsome recollection of Yeats by Oliver Gogarty, the Sirens section of Joyce's Ulysses, a late play by Yeats. About a third of the pieces, the editors note, have not previously been printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With an Irish Brogue | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

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