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Murder Most Foul. "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up . . ." begins Margaret Rutherford, auditioning for a provincial repertory company with a daffy, definitive recitation of Robert Service's Yukon ballad, The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She has no sooner finished than an actor drops dead at her...
After a few months in this "Bastille of steel," the child developed a violent temper and symptoms of neurasthenia-whenever she heard a piece of displeasing music, she quietly vomited. But she also developed a precocious passion to become "a genius"-if possible, a poetic genius. In 1923, riots attended...
The marches were played, the prayers were made, and Soprano Leontyne Price sang America, the Beautiful. Humphrey, visibly nervous, was sworn in by House Speaker John McCormack, who now, after 14 months, was relieved of his interim role as presidential successor. At 12:03, Lyndon Johnson took his place before...
For all those people who have been sincerely disturbed by Supreme Court decisions forbidding the recitation of state-prescribed prayers in public schools, Harvard's famed constitutional law professor, Paul Freund, had some reassuring words last week. Not that Freund disagreed with the court. It is hard to see...
Though Pumpkin Eater in outline resembles a compendium of womanly woes, it plays like a house afire, almost invariably ignited by Actress Bancroft, who could probably strike dramatic lightning from a recitation of tide tables. Having tea at the zoo, she quietly distills despair while a prurient cuckold (James Mason...