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There are nice performances, beginning with Maurice Evans' reciting of a sprightly modern prologue. As Tony Lumpkin, the celebrated booby of the piece, Ezra (Henry Aldrich) Stone is amusing but cannot avoid the booby trap of badly overdoing things. Celeste Holm and Brian Aherne are an engaging pair of lovers, and Burl Ives a good solid 18th Century father. Almost everybody, indeed, acts agreeably; the hitch is that virtually no two people act in the same style...
...going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then, after Aly and Rita slipped out, the concierge would lock every exit of the hotel, thus trap the impatient representatives of the world press...
Therefore, we should not fall into a Communist trap and refuse indefinitely any diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Eventual recognition (which does not mean moral approval) will be an essential step in any effort to support the American position in China. To withhold recognition, beyond the time when our State Department is able to work it out, would be to sell out our business firms trading with China, to desert the 1500 American missionaries still in the field, to surrender a century's investment of good will, and so play into Russia's hands. John K. Fairbank Professor of History
...University police security measures cannot be divulged, because that would spoil their objective, but if invaders from other universities want to get caught in our trap, let them try anything." Chief Alvin R. Randall asserted yesterday...
...first big chance came when Sears, Roebuck & Co. hired him in 1934 to dress up its Coldspot refrigerator, an ugly machine with a dust trap under its spindly legs, and corrugated shelves inside. Loewy moved the motor, from top to bottom, chopped off the legs, and installed the first non-rusting aluminum shelves ever to be used in a refrigerator. The Coldspot became a single smooth, gleaming unit of functional simplicity-and with it Sears' sales shot up five-fold by 1936. Loewy had been paid only $2,500 for the job (and had spent nearly three times that...