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...Point Four program by itself, said Schram, "is unsound and illogical" because "it sings the virtues of new investments so long as they are made outside the U.S." What's needed, said he, is a Point Five-"tax changes that will apply the principles of a 'bold new program' . . . both here and abroad...
Although started long before President Truman's Point Four program, the big-scale plan might well serve as a model for Point Four planners...
Died. Fritz Leiber, 66, Chicago-born, longtime Shakespearean trouper, since 1935 a Hollywood character actor (A Tale of Two Cities, The Life of Louis Pasteur) ; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. In a long career (beginning in 1905) of cross-country barnstorming as actor-producer, Leiber became one of Shakespeare's chief interpreters (everything from Romeo to Lear) for two generations of smalltown Americans...
Today, every well-read American has heard of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans-second of a long line of books that make life hard for generations of preachers of Anglo-American amity.* Now they will have a chance to read it in the best edition to date, with the original illustrations by France's Auguste Hervieu and copious notes, addenda, and a brief biography of Author Trollope supplied by Editor Donald Arthur Smalley of the University of Illinois...
...story of the movie industry has long tempted U.S. novelists, and a few writers have brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...