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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
...shape and size of the dignities it destroys. Pantomime goes with a whack to the seat of the pants; slapstick goes with peel or pie to any section of the anatomy which presents itself; Shaw, a Mack Sennett of the Parlour, trips up the prejudices. The quality deepens till, in Swift, you tumble up the human race itself...
...worked for Scripps-Howard, whose 19 dailies frequently left out Pyle's pleasant prewar aimlessness. Columnist Dadswell, who is 51, is his own boss, as four syndicates who tried to sign him have discovered. He beats up his own material singlehanded, types it at 3 a.m. (he sleeps till noon), edits it at the nearest coffee shop ("the restaurants of the country are my workshops"), sells it, mimeographs and distributes it to his newspaper clients. He goes where he pleases, mostly in his own car, writes whatever his common-denominator instinct directs about each day's wanderings. Last...
...into the White House-previously tenanted only by the "better people" - symbolized a sharp break from accepted manners. Jackson himself, says Author Schlesinger, was naturally courteous, but the new-rich were afraid that mere courtesy was not enough. Ostentation became the rule. Wrote one commentator: "Always keep callers waiting, till they have had time to notice the outlay of money in your parlors...
...once nicely settled in Cambridge University as a teacher of philosophy with a passion for mountain climbing. Two things, however, failed to fit into this picture: his acute intelligence, which made him suspect that often the greatest philosophers don't make sense; and his conscience, which wouldn't rest till he found out why they failed to make sense. C. K. Ogden was then at Cambridge, and interested in the treacheries of the language, and together he and Professor Richards probed the question. Their findings were set forth in 1923 in "The Meaning of Meaning"; the now famous book...