Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's angry young Playwright John (Look Back in Anger) Osborne had some thing to be angry about last week. His first musical, The World of Paul Slickey, a savage jab at London's Fleet Street society gossipists, was a critical fiasco...
...boom The World of Paul Slickey, Pelham darkly tabbed it "the show they tried to kill," plastered ads in taxis and in rest rooms of Mayfair restaurants. A four-page tabloid called the Daily Racket (after the paper in the play) sprouted on London newsstands, loaded with barbs aimed at Fleet Streeters. Rebuffed in efforts to hold an opening-night party in a Fleet Street pressroom, he hired the Cock Tavern, a newsmen's hangout, decorated it with signs, copies of the Racket, copy boys, celebrities and drink. (The bottle count: 64 whisky, 55 wine, 46 gin, twelve brandy...
Other guest preachers for next year include Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr and Dr. Paul Tillich...
...archbishop. Said the new prelate, whom they had come to honor: "I have read that this see is the richest see . . . The city of New York has length and breadth and height and depth of astonishing dimensions . . . [But] my viewpoint as a Catholic bishop is the apprehension of St. Paul, who wrote to the Corinthians: 'We look not at the things that are seen but the things which are not seen...
...have yet to get a single complaint from a buyer or stockholder." PERCY'S dedication to responsibility also includes broadening the intellectual horizons of Bell & Howell exec- utives. They are treated to monthly skull sessions with such world-minded figures as Henry Cabot Lodge and Paul Hoffman, get free volumes of Plato, Rousseau and John Dewey, are encouraged to take part in public affairs...