Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred Allen (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC) and Henry Morgan (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The old master and the talented novice of radio comedy fill a funny hour...
...Defeat. When MacArthur took over Japan, the country's economic situation was desperate. For decades, Japan, one of the world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was the master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing...
...must restrain himself in order to retain the reader's respect. Second, he must remember (and this is hardest) that he has witnessed an amateur production put on by his fellow students. I now have this problem, "The Tempest," which opened last night, is the Workshop's master concoction. They have emptied the pans of the quicksilver talent they have been mining these past three years, mixed it with their usual painstaking care and imagination and the resulting creation is indeed pleasant, satisfying, and rare...
...question, as Humpty Dumpty told Alice, was simply who was to be master. When it arose, last week, in three big U.S. corporations, each handled it in a different...
...reader of it will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal with timeless events, "and once Hawthorne is truly among them he is master of the simple matter they contain...