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Later, Adler sent her long, peremptory reading lists ("Go to some library and get John Morley's essay, 'On Compromise.' Don't put this off. Get it somehow. Buy it in a bookstore if necessary. I'll go halves with you . . . Which reminds me that you ought to read the New Testament this summer...
...rumpot who becomes a man and a lover against his will. Katharine Hepburn is excellent as the gaunt, freckled, fanatic spinster. Their contrasting personalities fill the film with good scenes, beginning with Bogart's tea-table agony as the indelicate rumbling of his stomach keeps interrupting Missionary Robert Morley's chitchat about dear old England...
Barnaby. Shortly after, Cartoonist Johnson himself tired of drawing the strip and turned it over to Collaborators Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, though he kept his hand in on & off, began writing the dialogue again in 1948. Somehow much of Barnaby's appeal disappeared, and the number of papers fell off by almost half. Last week Johnson announced that next month he will end Barnaby altogether. Although Barnaby readers always assumed that the child was ageless, Johnson said not so. Barnaby is finally growing up. He will soon reach his sixth birthday, and six-year-olds need no fairy...
...Century's editors cheered an equally sturdy dissent by Felix Morley (in Barren's Weekly): "Our whole system of government is based on the assumption that there are certain absolute values, referred to in the Declaration of Independence as the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Did the Chief Justice of the United States really mean what he said? Quaker Morley gave him the benefit of the doubt: presumably Vinson wrote "at the close of a difficult and trying session" and "did not edit his opinion with customary care...
With all due respect to Thomas Ybarra, John Bartlett, Christopher Morley, Louella D. Everett, David McCord, and Mr. Train, the reviewer still considers the poem "lifeless," trite," and "unfunny...