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Sophocles: Oedipus Rex...
...Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This led to his transfer to bombardment and the first B-17s. He navigated a flight 600 miles out to sea-a famous and daring feat in 1937-and came out of the overcast over his objective, the Italian liner Rex...
...Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant, the crowd burst spontaneously into There'll Always Be An England...
Tonight at 9 o'clock the Harvard Radio Workshop will present Yeats' prose translation of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" over the Crimson Network. F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Allen Clark '18 have adapted the work for radio and assisted in its production...
...Rex Beach, wife of the novelist, phoned from her Manhattan hotel suite and was greeted by the switchboard operator with a cheery "Hotel Algonquin." Replied Mrs. Beach: ".Yes, I know." Asked the operator, "Is this 1106?" "No, it's 408, and I want to order breakfast." Operator: "There's no room service except Sunday." "Yes, there is: I've . . . had breakfast up here every day-and furthermore it's Sunday." Operator: "Sunday! My God, I'm not supposed to be here...