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18th Century America (Fire and the Hammer, by Shirley Barker; Crown). A willful girl with a pretty but empty head pursues a recalcitrant Quaker for more than a decade and finally gets...
...Controversial." The Minute Women's protests were remarkably effective. "Many public officials," reported O'Leary, "who might . . . defy a lone organization . . . would be loath to go against the wishes of 500 individuals." The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that...
Among the standout performers: Character Dancer Gerda Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill...
What makes Toko-ri different as a war novel is its central theme of responsibility, something other U.S. writers have bypassed in an effort to outdo each other in gaminess, self-pity, resentment and use of four-letter words. Author Michener, a Quaker who overcame his religious scruples to enlist in the Navy in World War II, knows his subject. He is not a great novelist, and Toko-ri will not go down as a great novel. But it is an uncompromising story of fear, truth and death...
...Henry) Earle Muzzy, 62, executive vice president .since 1947 of The Quaker Oats Co., one of the nation's largest cereal-makers (1952 net sales: $263,700,000), moved up to the presidency after 40 years with the company. He succeeds R. (for Robert) Douglas Stuart, 67, newly named U.S. Ambassador to Canada...