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...Odets temporizes as well as blunders. Beset by the problem of having to make the play run till 11 o'clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...
...Assimilated by the middleaged, he had no spell for the young in politics and as an artist he influenced no one. There remained only his reclame, perhaps his most remarkable achievement-his unique stage personality remained sharp, sagacious and dazzling; the delightful vanity of his genius kept the limelight till the last...
...waited a few minutes to get a few more details before he called in from a drugstore. A.P.'s bulletin time: 2:32. Its text: "Three men-possibly four-were shot today in a gun battle in front of the President's home, the Blair House." Not till about 3 o'clock did reporters pull enough facts together to put out the news that an assassination had been attempted...
...When a Navy officer insulted a Marine, William Ward Burrows, first official commandant of the Marines, wrote to his Marine officer: ". . . Don't let me see you 'till you have wiped away this disgrace. It is my duty to support my officers and I will do it with my life, but they must deserve it." ¶ In 1836, when Commandant Archibald...
...Hotel to mid-Manhattan's Graybar Building, throne room of A & P's vast empire. At 9:30 sharp he strides through one of Ralph Burger's offices, turns right into his own thickly draped, richly paneled office. At 11:05 a.m., Mr. George arrives. Not till both are in can any important matter be settled. Since they share equal power in A & P's affairs, both must agree before any new policy is adopted...