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These one-man, grass-root surveys of public opinion leave me skeptical. People are polite by instinct and tend to tell the inquisitive stranger what they think the stranger wants to hear, or at least something that won't hurt his feelings...
...Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters" is taken from Act I of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is, as MacLeish says, "a play about a moment in time," and is set on the tropical island of Bahama. It tells of two people, a dissatisfied wife and a disconsolate stranger, finding a moment of understanding under the spell of the moonlit waters. Besides Amanda Steele, the cast includes Michael Laurence, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Towell, William M. Hunt, and Clive Parry. Directing will be Mrs. Mark DeWolff Howe...
Overture. In Van Nuys, Calif., after a stranger in the municipal building told him that he would have to appear in court to answer a traffic summons, Milton Wiegman, 27, replied: "I don't . . . take that from any two-bit civil-service employee," learned too late that he had been talking to the judge who was to hear his case...
Letter from Missolonghi. "I feel," wrote Byron's better self, "and I feel it bitterly, that a man should not consume his life at the side and on the bosom of a woman, and a stranger . . . But I have neither the strength of mind to break my chain, nor the insensibility which would deaden its weight...
...Able) Kimball, 57, who resigned as Secretary of the Navy last January, became president of Aerojet-General Corp., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary. No stranger to General Tire, Kimball joined the company after World War I, was executive vice president and general manager of Aerojet Engineering Corp. (which merged with Crosley Motors last March to become Aerojet-General) when he left for Washington...