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Died. Paul Drennan Cravath, 78, massive, magisterial corporation lawyer, head of one of the nation's greatest law firms, Cravath, de Gersdorif, Swaine & Wood; of a heart attack; in Locust Valley, L. I. Nearly 55 years ago Paul Cravath, with his yard-wide shoulders, 240 lb., 6 ft. 4 in., was "Cicero'' to his Columbia University Law School classmates, at whose head he stood. In a "dry-goods"' law firm (one partner: Charles Evans Hughes) he pursued insolvent debtors for textile merchants, began acquiring corporations as clients. His first big one was Westinghouse Electric...
Beneath the new mayor's new shoes was the empty, sealed-up, $6,000,000 tunnel of the Locust Street subway. Outside, down Broad Street cavorted Philadelphia's spangled, jingling, slightly cockeyed annual Mummers' Parade...
Because Philadelphia had run out of funds with which to buy rails and cars, two other subways under the city streets, like the Locust Street tunnel, were sealed up. Fire trucks, most of them over 13 years old, have lately failed to arrive at many a fire...
...years Hollywood has been waiting, no novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years ago, after writing a talented satire called Miss Lonelyhearts...
...tale of Hollywood's lunatic fringe, The Day of the Locust regards its characters as the human equivalent of Hollywood's architecture: "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous...