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...union. The tony ones stayed at cozy Holly Tree Inn. But most of the spectators as well as the players bunked in the barrack-like dormitories on the campus. For five days they watched the tennis and for five nights they fraternized: a get-together reception, a watermelon feast, a moonlight sail, moving pictures and a climactic Grand Ball...
When he awoke at St. Joseph's Hospital, in Lorain, Ohio, William Capps begged for chicken and watermelon. "I might die," he urged. Doctors put him to sleep again and amputated the rest of his leg to a point five inches below the knee...
...dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed William N. Robson, CBS staff director, who used such sound-effects as knifing a watermelon to sound like a stabbing. Later the Workshop became a laboratory for all of Columbia's crack directors. Reis, now a writer-director for Paramount in Hollywood, will direct three of the plays in the Festival; Robson, one. Most famed of the Workshop's plays. Archibald MacLeish...
Both groups join in Sunday night forums at St. Stephen's, in which Catholics and Jews speak as well as Protestants. Other Anti-Mothball activities include dances, watermelon parties, athletic games. Jack Hart's Collegians, his semiprofessional baseball team on which he plays left field, have won 18 and tied three of their 32 games this season. Busy Jack Hart also runs an employment agency for his Anti-Mothballers...
...each Democratic candidate to dangle before his district workers on election day. In the 1936 campaign, charges of corruption in Relief were part of Alf Landon's ammunition. But as items of political history, these "scandals" compare to the great WPA controversy of 1938, as peanuts to a watermelon...