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...Tyrone Guthrie has permitted himself. His Henry V is the least tricked-up Shakespearean production that Guthrie has ever been associated with in the U.S. Except for cutting some lines for pace, he trusts the author and the playgoer, for a change, and the play flashes like an unsheathed sword, keen, virile, inescapably compelling. It is a patriot's poem of valor, a memorial ode written in the bright and acrid air of combat for all men who ever fought, bled and died for their country's honor...
...rather reluctant about becoming millionaires," says Peter Randolph, the managing director of Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. " It is prob ably going to be more worry than it is worth." Regret it as he may, Randolph will have to grin and bear it. This week Wilkinson stock goes on sale on the London Exchange for the first time -and the value of the shares retained by Randolph and other members of the family-owned company will make them all millionaires overnight. To the owners of 192-year-old Wilkinson, this is only the latest indignity heaped upon them...
Word-of-Mouth. Before introducing the Super Sword, its stainless blade, Wilkinson was a little-known firm that had long been doing a comfortable business in ceremonial swords, bulletproof vests for fearful dictators and statesmen, and fire-detection equipment. It was pinning its future growth on a new line of high quality garden tools, had no desire to excite a battle of blades. But no matter how much it tried to down play its stainless blades and use them only to promote its tools, Wilkinson's blade sales took off in a flurry of word-of-mouth advertising. They...
...began composing his own plays, each one brimful of parts. "Twenty years he persisted in that controlled hallucination, but one morning he was overcome by the surfeit and the horror of being so many kings who die by the sword and so many unhappy lovers who converge, diverge, and melodiously agonize. The story goes that, before or after he died, he found himself before God and he said: 'I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man: myself.' The voice of God replied: 'Neither am I one self; I dreamed the world...
...Cardinals to go on to college. By meet's end, Fencing Mentor Lucia's C.C.N.Y. team was down in 15th place, but Lucia himself-former U.S. team coach for the world championships-was named U.S. collegiate fencing coach of the year, presented with the double edged ceremonial sword symbolic of the title. On the sword's handle is a carving of Janus, the two-headed Roman god who looks both to the future and to the past. With blades like Princeton's, U.S. fencing may have a future, at that...