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...Traveling Lady some of the people even play muddled roles-parts that have only the most peripheral value or semi-farcical character. They pass and repass, moreover, among lighting effects that involve the approach of dusk or onset of night, or sound effects of offstage dance music and distant trains. Such mood props can be valuable when they supplement the right storytelling and speech; but in The Traveling Lady they are often merely sentimental substitutes for them. There is no drive or fiber to the play, but rather a curious sense of wordiness without any gift for words...
...Alexander, now 65, was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. The son of a janitor, he worked his way through the University of Iowa, was a three-letter football tackle, graduated in engineering in 1912. He formed his own contracting business two years later and is now head of prosperous Alexander & Repass, builders (among many projects) of Washington's K Street Freeway along the Potomac...
...Government; James P. Morton, Fine Arts; George I. Mulhern, Jr., Classic Richard A. Nenneman, History; Leonal E. Opdycke, Comparative Philology and English; Peter A. Pardue, English; Walter O. Pearson, Philosophy; David Perkins, English; William L. Phelps, English; Mitchel T. Rabkin, Biochemist Sciences; Chester F. Relyea, Economics Richard R. RePass, English; John Rexine, Classics; Elwood A. Rickle History; Edward J. Rosek, Government Robert A. Russell, Government; Melvin C. Shefftz, History; Charles R. Sheparson, Biology; Julius Silberger, Jr., Biology; John B. Snook '49, History and Literature; Louis Solomon, Mathematics Archibal C. Spencer, English; Henry Steiner, History and Literature; David B. Stewart, Geological...
Second prize of $300 went to James V. Grasse '50 for his analysis: "The Prospect of Peace: The Role of the Soviet Union." Richard R. Repass '51 took third prize of $100 for an essay treating "The Love Theme in the Works of Wagner...
...make it easier to amend the Constitution. Last week Senators Wheeler and Bone proposed a Constitutional amendment, providing that if the Supreme Court declared a Federal law unconstitutional, Congress should have the power after the next general election to repass the law over the Supreme Court's "veto" by a two-thirds vote. Technically this would not provide a new means of amending the Constitution, but practically it would achieve the same end. As Pundit Walter Lippmann pointed out, this would make the will of two-thirds of Congress supreme over the Constitution, provided they can get themselves reelected...