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With D'Oyly Carte only a few weeks out of town, it takes considerable nerve for a group of amateurs to put on Gilbert and Sullivan. This is especially true of "Iolanthe," for of all G & S, it calls for the richest costumes and the most lavish staging. But in spite of this the Canterbury Players last night put on an "Iolanthe" well worth seeing...
...Historians. The Hinge of Fate covers the period December 1941-June 1943. Already it is clear that more than any other individual thus far-whether participant, recorder, or pure raconteur-Writer Churchill has given historians their richest cud to chew. No man, not even F.D.R. or Stalin, was so central to events or so frequently determined their course. If his history is not the last word on the events it describes, it is certainly the best foundation now in sight for the last word when it is written...
...Bonesmen Henry Luce, Robert A. Taft, Archibald MacLeish, and McGeorge Bundy of the Government department have succeeded; those who don't succeed or don't try to succeed get a talking to from Bonesmen who converge from all parts of the globe to do the job. Being the second richest corporation in Connecticut, next to Yale itself, Skull and Bones is well equipped to put errant brothers on the right track...
Since its incorporation 25 years ago, the Toronto suburb of Forest Hill Village has grown into a typical, well-to-do community, with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...
...Washington, Old Soldier Truman dropped in for an informal talk to men attending the 72nd conference of the National Guard Association. He asked their support in trying to get a universal military training law, called the nation's high rate of draft rejections "a disgrace to the richest nation in the world." Then striking a familiar note, he looked enviously at the decorations and campaign ribbons before...