Word: taking
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WASHINGTON, April 21--The Senate brushed aside a no-hurry rule today and whisked through by a 93-0 vote its confirmation of Christian A. Herter as secretary of state. This cleared the way for the suave, scholarly, 64-year-old Herter to take over with full authority from cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles...
Herter leaves Monday for Paris to take part in a free world foreign ministers' conference in preparation for East-West talks on the touch-and-go German situation...
...good deal was riding on this attempt at repertory. Its failure indicates that Americans (there is no reason to suppose that Bostonians are unique) do not want good theatre, and will not take it when it is offered. It will be hard now to read the success of a good play as indicating anything except that an audience has been stampeded by hit psychology, coaxed by affection for a favorite star, dragged by dumb loyalty to a particular critic, or tempted by the possibility of sexual excitement...
...other hand, "there's no doubt that on the whole American actors and directors take their job much more seriously and devoutly than English ones do... I admire this unreservedly.... The result when it's seen onstage is nearly always exciting, but you often get the feeling that the whole thing has been cooked up in a hermetically sealed oven. But that is the defect of a great virtue, which is work, work, work...
Although the Freshmen lost by three points, 71 1/2 to 68 1/2, they set two, and possibly three, new records. Mark Mullin ran the mile in 4:17.0, by seven seconds the best of his career, and Ed Bailey threw the hammer 170 ft., 9 1/2 in. to take his event by 45 feet. Bob Knapp and captain Harry Rich dead-heated in the 880 in 1:55.4, for what seems to be another Yardling record...