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...hostile troops but by the impersonal, creeping jungle. I ask of any new production: Is it helping to push back the jungle or is it, by carelessness or treachery, letting another patch of strangling green encroach upon the walls?" Last year, even before a new mystery called Signpost to Murder had a chance to make its debut. Levin made up his mind that it would be one more case of jungle rot. "Don't tell me, let me guess," Levin wrote sarcastically in the Express, speculating in advance on just how bad the play was going to be. Infuriated...
...Beaverbrook newspapers capitulated with astonishing alacrity. They conceded that on first nights theater producers are entitled to invite or exclude anyone. The price for Levin's first-night ticket: $22,400 in damages and legal costs. "A great day for the living theater," exulted Littler. As for Signpost. despite mixed reviews it ran for a year in London, is now packing the house in Britain's provinces, has been picked up by M-G-M for $70,000 and will move to Broadway some time this year...
...system has its dangers. A student never learns by the convenient signpost of grades just where she stands, and a complaint heard often is that, "I never really know how I'm doing." Also, as one member of the administration pointed out, "At any other school, an A ends matters; here without marks you can't win." If a girl responds correctly to these discomforts, the results can be very gratifying, for the quest for knowledge will outlast the final session of the course. There is a risk, however, that the student will lose her way without the tangible incentive...
...purchase of Avon was one more signpost along the new path that the Hearst empire has followed since the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. In constructing his corporate cat's cradle, Hearst paid so little attention to the ledger that in 1940 an economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit...
...Special Care. Five other Almond-locked Norfolk schools peacefully opened their doors to 5,126 whites and twelve Negro pupils. Just as peaceful was the enrollment of four Negro seventh-graders at Stratford Junior High in Arlington, Virginia-side Washington suburb. Wrote the editors of the Stratford school paper Signpost: "We have noticed that most of our classmates and friends don't especially care whether Negroes enter Stratford...