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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long-distanced Sherman Adams at home and at work 43 times in a recent six-month period, a phone call about once every four days ("A friend you call whenever you see fit"), and that Adams called him a number of times. ¶ Escorted Adams to a Boston tailor shop, Faber & Co., to be measured for a gift "suit, or probably two," although Press Secretary Hagerty had stated flatly only five weeks before that Adams had paid for the suits himself...
...program is designed to give recent college graduates "a practical course to bridge the gap between a liberal arts education and actual working experience," offering instruction in all phases of publishing, Mrs. Venn noted. In its seven years of existence, it has prepared over 500 students for jobs with book publishers, magazines, newspapers and miscellanous house organs...
...Sonata is far more accessible on first hearing than either the Quartet or Variations, but many in the audience found it too tough a challenge. This is quite understandable, for Carter's recent music tends to be long on intellect and short on emotion, and there is little melody in the usual sense of the term...
Regarding an article by your Mr. John Leonard concerning one Morris, which appeared in your most recent issue: Mr. Leonard seems to be laboring under the same delusion as Mr. Frank Norris when he said, "We want life, not literature" (and probably succeeded in giving us neither). In order to affirm and support his contention regarding over-formalism in the teaching of letters at Harvard, Mr. Leonard laments the eclipse of Thomas Wolfe, who, it is affimed, had Something to Say. I am at present re-reading Look Homeward Angel: mere plot will not do! There is a prevalent cliche...
...short. Indiscreet is a conventional comedy of what Hollywood supposes to be upper-class manners, but it is flicked off in the high old style of hilarity that U.S. moviemakers seem to have forgotten in recent years. Director Donen deserves a cash-register-ringing cheer. Actress Bergman, always lovely to look at, is thoroughly competent in the first comedy role that she has played for Hollywood. And Gary Grant is in a class by himself when it comes to giving a girl a yacht...