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...Thirteen years later, Miss Hellman encountered the same producer on a Hollywood street. "Lillian," he said, embracing her hypocritically, "I've missed you so deeply." And she laughed at him once more...
...Yacht Club has come a long way from the informal group which used to take off for occasional weekends on the water. With thirteen regattas scheduled for this spring, it is fast becoming the most major of minor sports at Harvard...
Lisa Commager is a beautiful Juliet. At the beginning of the play she tries too hard to be a thirteen year old so that when she becomes a woman at the end of the play, the change is rather a shock. But she has some wonderful moments and is one of the few actors on the stage who never sacrifics the meaning of her lines to their poetry. Joel Crothers as Romeo has but two strings to his harp: he either smiles the ingenuous smile of a toothpaste advertisement or pouts like a child denied his lollypop. The volume...
...Davis married a wealthy Chicago socialite named Cecil Clark, an "advanced" woman who preferred raising dogs to raising children. Before the wedding she informed him that the marriage would be platonic. He agreed. Thirteen years later, after his mother died, he found the strength to get a divorce. At 48 he married a showgirl, Bessie McCoy, who was half...
...National Interest and the Teaching of English in an attempt to appeal to different groups, has sacrificed coherency, but more important, it has not defined its principles. In the first thirteen pages there are thirty-six recommendations for improvements in the teaching of English (and almost as many reminders of the need for financial assistance). Part two discusses the nature of the national problem that is going to cost so much. Finally, pages and pages of figures, graphs and commentary tell their dismal story of the "status of English teaching today." In short, the report is arranged backwards...