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Died. Henning Webb Prentis Jr., 75, scholarly careerman (52 years) with Armstrong Cork Co., who rose to be president (1934-50), chairman (since 1950), president of the National Association of Manufacturers (1940); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Lancaster, Pa. As president, Prentis raised annual sales of Armstrong Cork from $22 million to $163 million, assets from $47 million to $112 million, by expanding into over 30 new businesses...
Last week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden...
...little money, strikers carry the burden of too much time. During the first few weeks of the strike, many of them found it pleasant to have leisure for fishing and do-it-yourself projects. But then boredom set in. "I wish it was over," sighs Steel Mill Machinist Louis Webb, saturated with TV. "I like to work." Even worse than boredom for some strikers is a growing feeling of helplessness as the strike drags on and savings dwindle. "Sometimes when I go to bed," says Frank Sekula, "I think: Here I am a head of a family, and there...
...woeful misconception of Shotover and Hector throws the play irretrievably out of focus, converting it into an unsuccessful attempt at mild country-house comedy. Alan Webb, Sorrell Booke, and Patrick Horgan are excellent in roles that can be played like refugees from Noel Coward; but Shaw had incomparably greater things in mind...
Historian Webb sees the country's next frontier in the South. "Forget the misfortune and injustice of the past," he told the Texas Council for Social Studies last June. "If I could, I would convince the Southern people that their future is brighter than it has ever been in history. The South is the one region whose resources have been largely undeveloped and unexploited. It is not only possible but it is also probable that this next century will belong to the South...