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Born. To Robert J. Allen, 41, $59-a-week Boston policeman, and Helen Mc-Leod Allen, 31, former secretary: their third, fourth, fifth and sixth children-quadruplets; in Boston. Names: Karen Elizabeth (1 lb. 4 oz.; 7:11 a.m.); Robert Jr. (3 lbs. 3 oz.; 7:15 a.m.); Timothy (2 lbs. 3 oz.; 7:20 a.m.), and Kathleen (2 lbs. 8 oz.; 7:25 a.m.). Two days later, Karen died of prematurity. Three days later, Timothy, who was given only a 50-50 chance to live, was being fed glucose intravenously...
...President had presented the nine Americans on the commission with a great opportunity and grave responsibility. The problem of security was obvious and compelling. But no one wanted the throttling kind of thought control inspired by Mc-Carthyism and leading, as Harry Truman aptly put it, to "the deadly imposition of conformity." Many a plain citizen, confused and alarmed by all the whirling words, would listen carefully to a quiet, disinterested voice that spoke with knowledge and authority. The commission might fail; but if it could find the way to security with freedom, it would earn a nation...
...group elected Louis Butler Mc-Cagg, Jr. '52 of Winthrop House and Katonah, New York, as secretary. There were three other men nominated for this post...
Calder's first show in Paris struck the French as typically American, reflecting the nation's vast distances and hurry-up psychology. His first U.S. show, in 1932, impressed Manhattan Critic Henry Mc-Bride as being the opposite: "It needed the dark, dull afternoons of a Paris winter for its inception, and needed them also ... for its appreciation." Today, Calder is sufficiently appreciated to make a good living from his art. His sculptures may have a machine-age look, but they are done by handcraft methods, the products of a Connecticut Yankee ingenuity and an untrammeled mind...
Ethel Morman's singing and Irving Berlin's music are the saving graces of Call Mc Madam (Imperial, 45th), a disappointing show considering the amount of talent involved. The grace and Paul Hartman revue, Tickets, Please! (Mark Hellinger, B'way and 53rd) is a first-class, consistently funny musical revne...