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Last week Philadelphia revived Benjamin Franklin's famed Junto, 174 years dead. The sight would have startled old Ben; the cozy little study club he founded in a tavern with eleven convivial companions in 1727 has a mammoth reincarnation. Two thousand Philadelphians trooped into the Academy of Music for the new Junto's first meeting, and at week's end fresh hordes were still coming. It was the biggest cultural revival in many a Philadelphia year...
...this experiment is a man named Vanda of CBS. CBS has invested $50,000 in a series of twelve try out shows (blanket title: Forecast) that it hopes will make hay when the summer doldrums are over. Last year, from a similar showcase, CBS sold Duffy's Tavern, now sponsored by Schick Magazine Repeating Razor Co. Besides Marlene's Scheherazade, other straw-hat sustainers this year will include Mischa Auer, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh...
...songs inside out, kidded the pants off the clown's teary air from Pagliacci. The band of the evening, John Kirby's, had not been hard to find. Plain people know it-in Manhattan's Café Society and on CBS's Duffy's Tavern-as one of the best of the small ones...
General Wavell did not invent this technique. Field Marshal The Viscount Allenby, his preceptor, used it. The fiery Confederate cavalry general, James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart, lost his life using it in the skirmish at Yellow Tavern on May 11, 1864. The Germans use it in Blitzkrieg...
After the meetings, William and Mary entertained with a luncheon in the Great Hall of the College. In the evening the group dined as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. at Raleigh Tavern. A harpsichord concert followed the dinner and completed the day's activities...