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...McClain, Journal-American...
Splash in the Night. Everyone was delighted when Humorist Benchley moved in, accompanied by Columnist John McClain, who trundled Bob from party to party in a wheelbarrow when walking was out of the question. At the Garden Benchley created some of his most memorable epigrams. There, when a friend said that drink was a slow poison, Bob, nose down in a beaker of martinis, answered: "That's all right. I'm in no hurry...
...public." Says Chapman: "I write for an audience of one-a tough one: me." Atkinson, Kerr and the Post's Richard Watts have a similar "personal" yardstick. The Mirror's Robert Coleman ("My readers consider me a ... shopper for them"), the Journal-American's John McClain ("My duty is to tell my readers whether or not a show is worth the price of a ticket") and the World-Telegram and Sun's William Hawkins ("My role is informative ... as is any good shopping service") all take a somewhat less individualistic view of their roles...
...critics' verdict over the years been right? Most theater people (when their own flops are not in question) grudgingly agree that there have been very few miscarriages of critical justice. "I try to keep in mind, even when viewing the dreariest efforts," says the Journal-American's McClain, "that the people involved are not criminals." There are times when the critics have been dead wrong, he adds, "but even an I.B.M. machine blows a gasket now and then...
...temporary Senior Tutor at Dunster House will be Carroll F. Miles, teaching fellow in Government. Housemaster Gordon M. Fair announced the Corporation appointment yesterday. Miles is at present tutoring and also teaching a section in Government I. He succeeds to the post of Professor William H. McClain, who will be taking a position at Johns Hopkins University in the German department. The position is effective February...