Word: schuyler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonpolitical" swoosh through California and three other Western states, will make 35 public appearances in four days. In Albany, meanwhile, Rocky was assembling a high-octane, presidential-type staff of experts. In as his chief military adviser (officially his executive assistant in Albany) was General (ret.) Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, most recently Chief of Staff to NATO Chief General Lauris Norstad. For his growing platoon of speechwriters, Rockefeller signed on Hugh Morrow, onetime Washington correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, more recently the busy strop behind Senator Kenneth Keating's well-honed speeches (TIME, Oct. 5). And Advertising Executive...
Especially difficult is the "short-short" story or play. Shopping and Waiting, by James Schuyler, the first of four plays given by the Poets' Theatre, is a five-minute piece that is scarcely more than an esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the scene closes when a predicted disaster comes true. The dull dialogue of Kenneth Donoghue, the dealer, and Jack Rogers, a customer in his second childhood, is enlivened only by the facile-clowning of Sonia Grant...
...While Schuyler's play illustrates the danger of triteness, The Man Who Walked in a Ray of Sunshine, translated by Roger Shattuck from the French verse of Rene Char, shows how an interesting idea can be obscured by too conscious a striving for economy. Set at the gates of Heaven, the play concerns a cocky young man who dances to seduce an angel sent to judge whether he is worthy of admission. He fails; she dances away and lets him fall, and a jury of humans, sitting outside the gates, exits in disgust at the rejection of its fair-haired...
...SCHUYLER JONES Paris
Lieut. General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 52, commander of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division, will succeed Gruenther as Chief of Staff. Schuyler is a protégé of Eisenhower and Gruenther, for much of the past two years has had charge of SHAPE'S atomic problems...