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Suspect (by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; produced by Douglas MacLean & Arthur J. Beckhard). Three weeks ago Playwrights Percy & Denham scored a neat success on Broadway with their horror play, Ladies in Retirement. Not only is Suspect a much weaker play, but its good points are all hand-me-downs from Ladies in Retirement...
...Charles Palmer's story "Runaround in Reverse" printed last June in MacLean's Magazine the hero admonished his erring wife and her lover thus: " 'I must say I am surprised. Or rather, you are surprised, I am astonished.' He had waited a long time for a chance to use this...
Conceding that his survey showed that the University of Today is not a complete failure, Dr. MacLean found some of his findings "shocking." Said he: "It is appalling to discover that there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non-graduates and between those who in college were known as 'good' students . . . and those who were known as 'poor' students. . . . They are culturally much alike: they listen to the same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about...
General College's dean is squarejawed, 46-year-old Malcolm Shaw MacLean, who had been a cowhand, college teacher and night editor of the Minneapolis Tribune before he began to build his new kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become too specialized for most students, he taught his misfits such broad subjects as biography, "euthenics" (problems of the home). He also undertook to find out all he could about his students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status...
...last week Dr. MacLean had heard from 951 pollees, aged 23 to 48. Some answers...