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When the Theatre Guild and Gilbert Miller join forces to produce a play like "Twelfth Night" by an author like W. Shakespeare, and for good measure include Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans, you have an event that might make even the mildest critic turn cartwheels down the center aisle...
Next day a storm broke around President Butler's old white head. Mildest comment was by Columbia's Professor-emeritus John Dewey, who observed that Dr. Butler's statement was "identical, as far as it goes, with totalitarianism," concluded that Dr. Butler could not have meant what he said. Less gentle were H. G. Wells, the Columbia Spectator, the Teachers Union, a host of other commentators. Said the Rev. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of Manhattan's Community Church: "He has taken Columbia into the European war before the Government has gone in." The New York Herald...
...Even his mildest critics say that Beaverbrook is "slightly cracked." But a Canadian columnist summed up the general opinion of him thus: "Positive, bee; comparative, beaver; superlative, Beaverbrook." To keep Britain's aircraft factories running during a Blitzkrieg is a job comparable to running General Motors' 38 U. S. plants in an earthquake...
...centuries ago, Pietro Aretino's fame was still such that Joseph Addison could doubt whether a single man alive did not know who he was. Today, except to literary specialists, his name is the mildest of pornographic hearsay. Thomas Caldecot Chubb's somewhat frumpish but thoroughgoing biography should do a lot toward resurrecting...
...Even the mildest criticism of Nazi policies is usually balanced by a dig at the Allies, to safeguard Swedish neutrality...