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Pausing briefly between play dates, Actress Tallulah Bankhead told the New York World-Telegram and Sun's Columnist Ward Morehouse about the trials & tribulations of touring the U.S. in Noel Coward's Private Lives: "I've now played Private Lives everywhere except under water. We've been doing remarkable business. Got $25,000 the week before Christmas playing in Alabama, but, oh God, some of my relatives nearly drove me crazy ... In playing this part through the South I found myself getting, oh, so Southern-if Noel could have caught...
...eleven, F.D.R. painfully scrawled an essay on Birds of the Hudson River Valley; 2) he once began a novel about a business tycoon, but dropped it after writing only two pages; 3) there was a reference to Joseph Stalin, whom he called "UJ." (for "Uncle Joe") in a 1944 telegram to Winston Churchill...
When he is not battling theological error at the University of Utah, Editor Petersen wages war against his powerful competition-the morning Tribune (circ. 88,930) and the evening Telegram (circ. 35,799). Both are owned by the family of the late mining king and U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns of Utah. In two years, the Mormon Church has invested about $2,000,000 in expanding and improving the News, including a type-face-lifting...
...Civil Liberties Union presented a telegram from Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, in which he stated that the last two wars had shown the Commonwealth was politically sound in spirit. Existing statutes on subversive problems are adequate, MacLeish added, and that the proposed measure might have an effect opposite to that intended by weakening rather than strengthening the colleges...
Service & Sewers. Jim Duff had explained what kind of party he wanted in a telegram to the G.O.P. committee drafting the new Republican "platform"(TiME, Feb. 20). It was a party that is "broad and not exclusive, a party of service and not of privilege, a party that is progressive and not backsliding, a party that is constructive and not petty." That was not Joe Grundy's party...