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Unlike St. Paul, however, TSM has green eyes, greying brown hair, a deceptively formidable exterior, and an indestructible appetite for good celery, good tennis, and good English prose. A parson's son (his father is the retired Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey), he came to TIME via Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was born, Princeton (A.B.), Oxford (B.A.), and an associate editorship of the New Republic. Father of four (boys), he is a soft touch for his family, but a "hard" man with his staff-especially with novice writers and researchers who haven't learned that erudition and journalism...
Then Dr. Mildon went fast into a short sermon. Its catch phrase: "New men for a new world." "And now," concluded the parson, "please join me in a short prayer." He prayed in simple, informal language, thanked God for the safe return of servicemen and hoped for the spiritual safety of mankind...
Twice a year, at Easter and Christmas, the London Times turns over its leading editorial to religion. The editorial writer for the occasion is not a Timesman but an Anglican parson: 53-year-old Canon Spencer Leeson, who recently gave up the $16,000-a-year headmastership of illustrious Winchester College (prep school) to become a parish priest in one of Portsmouth's worst-blitzed areas. Said the Times leader...
Candida (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Katharine Cornell in association with Gilbert Miller) has come to seem, with the years, almost as much Katharine Cornell's property as Bernard Shaw's. As the radiant lady fought over by the prating parson she married and the mewling poet she bewitched, Actress Cornell long ago found one of her most triumphant roles. Last week she was playing it on Broadway for the fourth time, and playing it well. But the cast surrounding her was not the one whose brilliant teamwork made the previous revival, in 1942, a real event...
Candida's scalawag father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) was often amusing; the prissy Prossy (Mildred Natwick) almost always was. But though Marlon Brando got a measure of individuality into Marchbanks, Shaw's soft-shelled poet seemed once again a wight that never was on sea or land. And Parson Morell (Wesley Addy) was not the man for whom Prossy would have pined or Candida gladly drudged. Candida's choosing him over Marchbanks seemed largely, last week, like choosing the lesser of two evils...