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...world generally considered a typical American. He appeared reticent, formal, gentle, oldfashioned, a man of controlled emotions and clear purposes. He was born in 1877 in Highgate Center (pop. 500 at the time), among the green, hard hills of Vermont. He read the Bible, Lincoln, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, was fullback at the University of Vermont. Later, he settled down to the life of a small-town lawyer. In 1931, he was elected to the Senate, where, after 1939, he labored long & hard for aid to the Allies...
Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
...Duchess of Malfi (by John Webster; adapted by W. H. Auden; produced by Paul Czinner), though one of the most famous of Elizabethan dramas, received its first Broadway production in 88 years. From a theatrical standpoint, there were possibly reasons to explain the delay. For all its magnificent flashes of drama and snatches of poetry, The Duchess moves slowly, mounts uncertainly, lets its fire go out between quick, bright blazes. It lacks, too, the humanity that a Shakespeare could fuse with horror; Webster's tale of the rich, widowed young Duchess who remarries in secret, fearing her rapacious brothers...
Free but Not Easy. City College was the first tuition-free, city-owned U.S. college (nine cities now own colleges), and was started, according to its first president, West Pointer Horace Webster, as an "experiment [in] whether the highest education can be given to the masses...
...this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus. And in her role as the aunt, Miss LeGallienne demonstrates she still believes that elenching her hands and jutting out her jaw are sufficient substitutes for genuine acting. As for Margaret Webster and Victor Jory, they are no more or no less wooden than they always have been...