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...night last week hulking (230 lbs.) Rufus Stanley Woodward, sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune, was called on the carpet. When he left the office of Managing Editor George Cornish, Woodward was out of a job (after 18 years on the Trib). Woodward had made the Trib's sports section one of the best in the U.S., but he had asked for trouble. He had criticized the firing or forced retirement of several staffers. And when the management asked what two men he could fire for economy, he had sarcastically suggested: "Columnist Red Smith...
...Worldling. No crusader, but an able newsman on a left-of-center course, is smooth, bespectacled Joe Barnes, 41, brother of Howard Barnes, the Trib's drama critic. (A third brother, Bernard, is assistant to TIME'S Vice President Howard Black.) A professor's son who was Crimson president at Harvard ('27), Joe Barnes did postgraduate work at the University of London's King's College and has batted around the world for 20 years as a student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent...
...where the actors can be seen reviving "Peg O' My Heart," "Dear Ruth," etc., to packed houses. Other good citizens, in other places about the country, tirelessly devote their free evenings to mouthing the lines of the Messrs. Kaufman, Hart, and others. It is therefore entirely understandable when the Trib gets its back up over being shoved into the Little Theater category...
...field of comedy, however, the Trib players allow themselves to romp with such abandon that the script becomes a contender for the laughter of the audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...
...Tributary does deserve praise for its efforts throughout the past season and for its selections for the current Festival. The old maxim that it is always better to see any play than merely to read it can be examined during the next two weeks when the "Trib" will offer such seldom-seen plays as "Troilus and Cressida" and "Measure for Measure." This production of "Othello" will be prosecuted again this Saturday night and also next Wednesday...