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Playwright Laurents (Home of the Brave, The Bird Cage) is the latest of many writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...
Change of Course. The comeback was amazing even to the Japanese. By V-J day the U.S. had sunk 80% of Japan's merchant fleet, once the world's third biggest. left it with only one passenger liner, five ocean-going merchantmen and a few hundred overworked and battered coastal vessels. SCAP also scuttled any plans to rebuild the fleet. Under the surrender terms, Japan could build no ships for herself bigger than 5,000 tons, none of them faster than eleven knots...
...Marshall Field Jr., editor & publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, came a letter from Merchant Prince Marshall Field Sr., owner of the paper. In the letter, printed on the editorial page, Owner Field wrote: "When the editorial leadership of the paper was turned over to you [in 1950], I was certain that you would assume an independent and direct attitude, and this you have done. Your support of ... Eisenhower ... I both understand and respect ... I find myself in complete agreement with [Stevenson's] aims . . . This letter is ... in no way intended ... to influence your attitude . . ." Editor Field...
...giving his father the odds of a rook and winning easily. Sammy came to the U.S. when he was nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went on to graduate from the University of Chicago. Except for a flair for mathematics, he was just an average student...
...satisfactorily explain what makes a great chess player. Having a mathematical bent is not enough. The leading U.S. masters come from all walks of life, and include a psychologist, a wholesale meat merchant, a chemist, an editor, a college student, a pharmacist and a soldier. There has never been a top woman player. Reshevsky thinks that women are too easily rattled to make strong players. Of composure and self-confidence, the two most important ingredients after ability, Reshevsky has a full measure. He displayed both when a spectator asked him to explain the one-sidedness of his match score against...