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...Studio One to the Kraft Theater. With some movie work as well, he eventually had enough excess cash to take time off in 1957 to write Who'll Save the Plowboy? for off-Broadway production, an award-winning somber tale of a life saved in combat only to rot in peace...
...invented the airplane after all. But the adult U.S. male who shows up at the park with kite and twine is certain to be suspect unless he has a passel of kids in tow. And there is something definably foreign about the doughty Somerset Maugham hero who preferred to rot in jail rather than pay his ex-wife alimony-all because she had smashed his favorite kite...
...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...
Victim to Dry Rot. Another source of African unrest has been the extravagance and economic naivete of some of its new leaders. The Brazzaville Congo's Abbe Fulbert Youlou, a Roman Catholic priest turned President, ordered mauve cassocks from Dior, quaffed champagne and built himself a luxury hotel. Meanwhile, his country's timber-based economy fell victim to dry rot. Crowds of New Class labor union members, with the aid of the army, politically defrocked him last August. A similar fate befell Dahomey's President Hubert Maga, who built himself a $3,000,000 palace and shrugged...
...buildings are eating up old parking lots), the University of Washington is integrating kids and cars in combined garage-dormitories. But Fordham University failed when it tried to call in the commercial Kinney System Inc. to run a $225,000 parking operation -price-protesting students chanted "Let the lot rot!" And just having rich alumni, as Harvard has, is no help. Who wants to put up a Memorial Garage...