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...angel, Dwight Ripley, "an American painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses in Indian fashion, Tambi bills his own services at $80 a week, agrees with T. S. Eliot that every poet should have a job other than poetry...
...other actors tend to pall a little beside Loeb, but nearly all of them redeem themselves in the truly funny final scene. Here Edith Iselin, as Portia, and Paul Schmidt, as Bassanio, lose their initial remoteness and become recognizable as lovers. Jean Loud, in the part of Nerissa, is charming throughout, gaining stature as the play progresses. As Launcelot Gobbo, a clown, Michael Pollatsek injects some humor into the early scenes by cleverly contrived pomposity and overacting. Ernest Eugene Pell, on the other hand, gives a somewhat too unobtrusive, if competent, performance as Antonio, the Merchant. Yet the only serious...
...While resolutely pursuing these aims, which are the products of our faith in God and in the peoples of the earth, we shall eagerly grasp any opportunity to free mankind of the pall of fear and insecurity which now obscures what can and should be a glorious future...
World Perspective. The primary U.S. objective, said the President, was the achievement of world peace with justice and the removal of "the pall of fear." The President reviewed his meeting with the Communist leaders at Geneva last July and the ill-fated foreign ministers' conference in October. "The Soviet leaders are not yet willing to create the indispensable conditions for a secure and lasting peace," he said. "Communist tactics against the free nations have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence ... to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity." The U.S., therefore, needed to maintain and strengthen its collective security...
Jerry bristles at the suggestion of some CBS executives and entertainers that the Martin & Lewis team would soon pall on audiences if they appeared regularly on a TV series. "What makes CBS so damned brilliant?" he demanded. "Any imbecile knows that saturation is the misery of the entertainment world. We've made it an event when we go on. Mr. and Mrs. Viewer can't tune us in any time they choose. The greats of the business...