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Finally getting word of the Bowmans' plight, San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher last March sent a long letter to Police Chief Thomas Cahill demanding action. Cahill assigned Inspector Nathaniel Pedrini to the case-and things began to change. Pedrini attached a tape recorder to the telephone to gather evidence, persuaded the telephone company to tap the line until midnight and carefully check every call. When the police finally traced the culprits, the tap led to 22-year-old Steven Van Otten and 19-year-old Barry Van Otten, the sons of a policeman in suburban Daly City...
Both von Stade and Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, maintained that the PT program is "the heart of the intra-mural athletic system at Harvard...
...Commissioner of Sewers, whom young Max Balkan reveres as a man who made good. Max is an idling dreamer full of fast-buck schemes, who meets the disaster expected by everyone but himself. Some of the family scenes sound like Arthur Kober's My Dear Bella rewritten by Nathaniel West, but all of the novel that is likely to remain with the reader is the figure of Max Balkan's father, the extragedian of the Yiddish theater who now wears clown makeup and carries sandwich boards for a beauty parlor...
Other literary sons-John Phillips Marquand, Nathaniel Benchley, Klaus Mann -have tried with indifferent success to write like Dad. Auberon Waugh conies closer than any of them to pulling it off: at first glance, The Foxglove Saga could pass for a sequel to Decline and Fall. Like Evelyn's first novel, The Saga opens in an English boys' school and is a picaresque, loosely jointed account of several old school chums as they lurch through a succession of army camps, prisons, hospitals and asylums. The characters are often almost the same as in Decline and Fall...
...Nathaniel Frothingham, the director, and Todd Lee, the see designer are both to be congratulated--as heartily for what they neglected to do as for what they did. Frothingham did not encumber the play with useless "business" in order to keep the audience "interested." His first effort was always to get across the meaning of the lines, and he was right in assuming that the play itself was enough to hold one's attention. When there is action on stage, as in the dueling scenes, if it is never quite convincing, it is at least not ludicrous...