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...sack and ale they had nourished: opening on Broadway in Shakespeare's Henry IV (TIME, May 20), England's Old Vic seemed lustily alive. But vodka was not quite their drink; and in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya last week the Old Vic did some noticeable stumbling...
Actor Richardson's Falstaff was very likely the best that this generation had seen. It caught the lustiness as well as the wit. Falstaff was indeed "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts" in the chambers of whose brain, as Hazlitt quoted, "it snows of meat and drink." Whether playing dead or playing the hero, making light of honor or rhapsodizing about sack, impersonating the King or embracing blowzy Doll Tearsheet (amusingly played by Joyce Redman), he rolled through the play, the greatest comic figure in English literature...
...such unsportsmanlike reporting, Siniavsky last week got the sack. Also fired was the "careless editor" who passed the story. The London Daily Worker virtuously pointed the moral: "Soviet journalism, while hard-hitting, enjoys a splendid reputation for accuracy and clean, aboveboard reporting . . . the violators pay the price. . . . The world's press would gain immensely in prestige if it were to take similar action against the daily purveyors of anti-Soviet slanders...
...football captain, is leading the field in the competition for the second base post that he held last spring and summer, while John Coppinger, also a holdover from last year, is contending with Paul Butler, who played on the '44 Freshman squad, fear the keystone sack...
...were British instead of American, what would be your reasons for wanting to read TIME? Our subscribers in Great Britain have answered this question clearly and almost unanimously in a sack-full of mail we received from them recently. They read TIME for pretty much the same reason that Americans do: to keep themselves informed on the significant news of the world. But they have another important reason: they want to know about America and about the American viewpoint. Writes Brendan Bracken. Britain's wartime Minister of Information...