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Specifically, the Government noted, Lev managed to grab and hold for himself a $2,040,204.97 contract (for white sailor hats) the Navy wanted to split up, and apparently used $213,924 to buy favors for Government officials. The Senate subcommittee turned its evidence "of fraud, bribery and perjury" over to Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., asked him to prosecute Lev and try to get back some $450,000 Lev owes the Government for deviating from his contracts...
...University police officer last night rescued a 17-year-old Somerville girl and her sailor escort from a "tall, gun-wielding man" on the corner of Bryant and Frances Streets by the Divinity School. The offender, however, escaped to Beacon Street and could not be found...
...Keeps (1942), told of a girl who suffers guilt by association of one kind or another with a Yale man, an art dealer, and, most painfully-because the fellow was no intellectual-in a Pullman compartment with a man in a Brooks Brothers shirt. The Oasis (1949) was a sailor's farewell to the remnants of New York's intellectual Left; it began with the arrival of a bunch of New Utopians, their cars laden "with whisky, cans and contraceptives," and left them at the end without even their illusions. After The Groves of Academe...
...first clocks and calendars, and with the notches that the shepherd cut when counting his flock. Then come the calendar keepers, the powerful group who could tell people when to plant crops. Later men developed more complicated desires. The farmer wanted to know how much land he had, the sailor what course to plot, the priest what taxes to collect. Out of each of these developed an addition to mathematics...
Unfortunately for the new upbeat trend, the week's best play was downbeat all the way. On CBS's Climax! Irving Stone's Sailor on Horseback charged head on into TV taboos-illegitimacy, Socialism and failure. As hard-living Novelist Jack London, Actor Lloyd Nolan seemed physically too slight for the role but in the essential scenes he created a sense of force and fury that lifted the play over its hurdles. Mercedes McCambridge played London's chillingly correct sister, and Mary Sinclair was excellent in her despairing efforts to be the proper wife...