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Fair Play. Among its board members: the University of California's President Robert Gordon Sproul; Stanford's former President Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur; the University of Oregon's President Donald Erb; Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Robert A. Millikan. But when the Fair Play Committee's Pasadena chapter distributed Private Borchers' letter to the Legion, it promptly got itself "investigated" last week...
When Investigator Gannon had piled up sufficient horror tales, he summoned white-haired Mrs. Maynard Force Thayer, D.A.R. member and chairman of the offending Pasadena Fair Play Committee chapter. Sample testimony...
Victorious on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 1), Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away...
...Army's anti-tank bazooka is a rocket weapon. Two U.S. rocketeers, Drs. Theodore von Karman and Frank J. Malina, are cooking with propulsion for the newly founded Aerojet Engineering Corp., in Pasadena. The Luftwaffe is using highly effective rocket guns on its fighters. Unconfirmed, but believable, is the report that the Germans have at least one more rocket weapon: a gun which will outdistance the Big Bertha of World War I and hit London from the Channel coast...
MARSHALL KIRBY Pasadena, Calif...