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...week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors, and scarcely a trace of a Welsh accent...
Lukewarm Governor. Mike Di Salle plopped into an armchair, draped one hefty leg over the side and, with a trace of anger, said that he was mighty annoyed by a rash of Washington-datelined news stories saying that Kennedy was in Ohio for a showdown and would enter the state's presidential primary next May whether Di Salle liked it or not. Explaining that he hoped to avoid a party-splitting primary fight, Di Salle said that he himself was strongly tempted to lead a unified delegation-as its favorite son. What he left unsaid, but what Kennedy might...
EWEX KNIGHT CORP. grew out of the Harvard doctoral thesis of Harold Ewen. Working with Harvard's Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Edward Purcell (in '52, for nuclear magnetic measurement), Ewen developed and built equipment to locate and trace hydrogen clouds several hundred thousand light years distant from earth. This resulted in no less than a remapping of the solar system. With a fellow scientist's $1,000 and his own theories, Ewen started his company in 1952. turned out radiometers (receiving systems for radio telescopes), radio sextants, microwave components. Last year Ewen Knight chalked...
...Rabb is an intelligent and imaginative director. But no matter what values he feels may have changed in Streetcar, I'm afraid the protagonist of the play has not. This is not Stanley's play nor ever will be, and to try and make it so by removing every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power...
...year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing this...