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...rear-guard action against a benign monarchy of wealth is deliciously overwhelmed by her munitions-making father (Robert Morley), her agnostic sweetheart (Rex Harrison, George VI's double), and especially by an unreconstructible ruffian (Robert Newton), who very nearly runs away with the picture...
...have kept the Lippincott house in order. Its current president, tall, foxhunting, 54-year-old Joseph Wharton Lippincott, got off to a slow start. But in 1936 he hired as manager of the trade department canny, hard-boiled Frank Henry, former sales manager of Doubleday, Doran. Henry brought Christopher Morley and Kitty Foyle with him, gave Lippincott a more up-to-date approach to the chancy best-seller field...
...When Dr. Morley quit the Post last October to take his place at Haverford, newsmen whispered that he had disagreed with Publisher Eugene Meyer over U.S. policy and the war. His friends explained that he was no isolationist, but that Haverford's peace-loving Quakers liked his scrupulously neutral attitude...
When Haverford asked René de Chambrun, son-in-law of France's No. 1 Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval, to address the student body Dr. Morley rejected Dr. Hotson's suggestion that he also invite British Novelist Somerset Maugham. And when Dr. Reitzel invited Eugene Houdry, president of France Forever and a supporter of General de Gaulle, Dr. Morley objected, and the speech was canceled...
...Morley last week explained that René de Chambrun was one of a series of speakers that also included British Novelist Phyllis Bentley "at the suggestion of Dr. Hotson." Furthermore, Dr. Morley said that Dr. Hotson asked for a raise soon after Dr. Morley arrived at Haverford last October, was refused, resigned last month. Dr. Reitzel, the president said, "informed me of his intention to resign" in October...