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Into eight conference rooms at Littauer Center on one of the first days of spring crowded some ten score students. Pads and pencil, which armed every pretty maiden and a few others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of postoffice or "goldfish gobbling" was about to begin. For almost six hours, Littauer was converted into a gigantic safety valve for youth and all its fears and ideas. Smoke-filled rooms, hushed giggles, and overflowing ash trays gave signs through the night that the conference was still there...
...principle of the machine's operation is based on the fact that a lead pencil mark is electrically conductive. The scoring key is prepared by making perforations to correspond in position with correct responses on the answer form...
...minor characters and the direction only the highest praise can be given. Particularly in Polonius (George Graham), whose part has benefitted greatly from the producer's unwillingness to apply the blue pencil, has the subtlety of Shakespeare's characterization been caught. When giving his instructions (I-III) to Laertes (Wesley Addy)--who is excellent in his humorous indifference to his father's preaching, but none the less convincing in his pursuit of revenge--Polonius is at once sage and verbose. To Ophelia (Katherine Locke),--who is appropriately fragile, and who contributes a mad scene (IV-V) as effective...
...This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled in an automobile going 60 m.p.h. Current issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review carries a memoir of Thomas Wolfe by Henry T. Volkening, a colleague of his teaching days. Theme of Volkening's recollections -Wolfe's difficulties and anxieties about getting his work...
These words, written in pencil on a piece of copy paper last week, were the valedictory of the man most newspapermen rate as No. 1 U. S. cartoonist. Even if he wanted another daily job, there are few newspapers left today on which Rollin Kirby would be happy...