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...Despite Reader Crozier's wittishisms, TIME will continue to go along with Webster's (Unabridged) and the Oxford English Dictionary...
...exodus to the services cut John O'London's circulation to 50,000, and it never recovered. Last week its publishers sadly announced the last issue; high costs and changing tastes had forced the magazine out of business. Lamented John O'London's Editor Webster Evans: "People prefer to read trash. They are just not interested in the world of literature and the arts...
...after Glasser's testimony, Lewis Webster Jones, president of the University, termed his actions "clearly in conflict with the policies of the University" and suspended him with pay, pending an investigation of the case by a special faculty committee and by the board of trustees...
...reign of the great sectional leaders of American politics did not pass with Calhoun, Webster and Clay. One of the most powerful in history died just last year: Robert A. Taft. The Republican parties of the twenty-odd states that make up the heartland of America followed him to the point of devotion. Because of this it was he, more than any other man, who stopped the New Deal dead in its tracks after the Second World War and begrudged the nation a bipartisan policy of world leadership...
Most praise for what is good in the production belongs to Webster Lithgow for his really magnificent sets. Ingeniously exploiting the vastness of Sanders' stage, Mr. Lithgow uses with distinction that space which has dwarfed less skillfully-designed scenery. Essentially, the set consists of three frames, descending in size from the right side of the stage. With this arrangement, even a scene aboard the prow of a junk--projecting into the middle frame--does not seem out of place...