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...year, review more than 250. It is unique in that often (nearly half the books reviewed) the author himself has been interviewed by a TIME reporter at home or abroad. Among the recent reviews that have included "takeouts" of the authors, you may recall those of Mary McCarthy (Nov. 14), Simone de Beauvoir (May 28) and Colin Wilson (July...
Henry V, the main Shakespeare work on this year's program, afforded an opportunity to experiment. Canadian-born Actor Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French...
...part, Detective Pinnell, whose clumsy handling of the Woodward killing (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955) had earned him little respect among newsmen, could have averted any possible misunderstanding if he had briefed the press and pledged it to secrecy immediately after the crime. Later he jeopardized further attempts to pay the ransom; he blabbed to reporters that the packages left by Weinberger contained little real money. When the kidnaper upped the ransom from $2,000 to $5,000, Pinnell's cops asked most papers and wire services not to print the information, but apparently neglected to call the Times...
...Lace Curtain. On Nov. 22, 1902, the night David McDonald was born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude...
...season rolled on as the football team beat Lehigh, 39 to 0. Hoover won and racoon coats went up to a "preposterous" $600. Then on Friday, Nov. 9, Edward S. Harkness '97 gave three million dollars to the college, which President Lowell said would be used to build two new houses for upperclassmen. The reason--"to develop the unique culture of the individual." The college waited and wondered. The football season was a success as Dave Guarnaccia '29 and French led the Crimson to a 17-0 victory over Yale...