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...some of them had a change of heart when Marcus ran into personality conflicts with subsidiary executives (most of whom were kept on after the Hoffman take-over). Furthermore, Marcus was so busy buying new companies that he had little time to run his corporate complex. In January Samuel Schulman, president of George McKibbin & Son, book manufacturers bought out by Marcus last year, and his associates started selling 144,000 shares of Hoffman stock with SEC approval...
...underwent an appendectomy. He came out of the sodium pentathol with a bad case of hiccups, but nonetheless dictated to his wife Janet, a former United Press reporter. His file arrived in New York apace with those of Washington Correspondents Marshall Berger and James Truitt, Seattle Bureau Chief Robert Schulman and Seattle Correspondent Russell Sackett. All, and much other information, went into the making of this week's cover story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Dave & the Green Stuff...
...Hole in the Head (by Arnold Schulman) possibly originated as a kind of problem play-as something that should tackle the situation of a roughneck Jewish rolling stone left to bring up a twelve-year-old motherless son. That, in any case, is substantially how-after lots of Miami-hotel atmosphere and Jewish-family antics-it concludes: far from anything being straightened out almost nothing in A Hole in the Head has been explored...
Playwright Schulman has really used his situation much less as a problem than as a come-on and a catchall. The father, his Miami hotel foundering, attempts to get a long-distance loan from his rich, crude, stupid New York brother. The brother, accompanied by his warmhearted wife, immediately flies down, immediately flares up-the first of many times-for laughs. His wife expostulates with him, sighs over the boy and wants to take him home with her; she finds a nice widow for the father. The father ditches a blonde for the widow...
Playwright Schulman's wayward exploitation, rather than honest marshaling of his material, would matter less were the details, at least, freshly observed and the detours more rewarding. But A Hole in the Head has studied human reactions far too little and audience responses far too much: it goes for its laughs to what has many times been laughed at. and in the very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment...