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...fond reminiscence, an entirely new, stylish, venturesome, 30-page publication, all black and white and full of beans. It went to 12.000 charter subscribers, including some names that are printed rather large in history: Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, William Howard Taft, William Allen White, Booth Tarkington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some who were on the original list are still with us; a notable example is New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman...
Exeter's diverse writers include Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...
Westerns and private-eye shows offer escape into a world where men are men and women know their place. But situation comedies-which, this season, seem destined to outweigh saddle and sleuth operas-have a far more obscure and disturbing appeal. In their denatured apotheosis of Booth Tarkington and Clarence
Died. Keyes Winter, 81, boyhood Indianapolis neighbor of Booth Tarkington and model for Penrod, who became a Manhattan lawyer and for 19 years a judge of New York City's municipal court; of a heart attack; in Syosset...
Take Me Along (music and lyrics by Bob Merrill; book by Joseph Stein & Robert Russell) sets to music Eugene O'Neill's only pleasant, nostalgic play of family life, and keeps it pleasantly nostalgic. In Ah, Wilderness! O'Neill traded tragedy for Tarkington, Freud for the Fourth of July, tom-toms for small-town brass bands. Take Me Along keeps much the same small-town look, 1910 flavor, horse-and-buggy pace. Its drinking is confined to a likable bachelor and a would-be sex-bad boy; its passion consists of the same boy's book...