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Varsity Basketball vs. Wesleyan at Middletown...
James Cain has a cold authority about suburban vice which could yield an invaluable gloss on Middletown or even on the works of Lardner and O'Hara. His trouble is not knowing when to stop. His money gets so cold, his sex so hot, his snobbery so snakelike and his dirty work so predictably subhuman, that their victims are scarcely more than caricatures of human fallibility. But the drugstore-library sensationalism that still overhangs Cain's work does not stop him from being one of the most readable storytellers in the U.S. He has broadened his subject matter...
...country's best architects. Already complete and occupied are the sombrero-eaved cottages which Los Angeles' Richard J. Neutra designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island (Calif.) naval-base workers. Builders got started on Wurster's houses last month...
...Audubon. Connecticut had, as yet, no museum to put them in, couldn't see its way to building one until the present munitions boom was over. Casting about for likely storage space, the State last week had received offers from the State Library, Hartford's Avery Memorial, Middletown's Wesleyan University, Yale's Peabody Museum...
...conference, which adheres closely to the theme, will include an address by Miss Lynd, co-author of "Middletown" and four panels of discussion. Panels are "Encroachments Upon Democracy in Education," "Teacher Welfare," "Workers in Education," and "Parent Responsibilities...