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Great chunks of the British Empire seethed last week in the cauldron of world unrest. While mutiny and riot sizzled and popped through India, Egypt, Palestine and Jamaica, Britons discussed in querulous tones the propriety of General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster's extra shirt...
...demobilization-"a suit, a raincoat, two shirts, one pair of socks, two collars, a tie and a pair of shoes." In clothes-short Britain, such an outfit would take more than a year's ration points. When hundreds of other ex-soldiers angrily asked why General Riddell-Webster got two shirts, the British War Office called it "a packing error" and sent an officer to retrieve the second shirt...
...pedagogy, Dr. Neilson was also a scholar, author of authoritative books (Essentials of Poetry, Burns, How to Know Him, etc.). He was associate editor of his friend Charles W. Eliot's "five foot shelf" of Harvard classics, and editor in chief of the second (1934) edition of Webster's New International Dictionary...
...Also huzzah'd: Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, 68, of Manhattan's Barnard College; All-But-Abstract Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, 58; Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 36; Novelist I. A. R. Wylie (The Young In Heart), 60; Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Esther Loring Richards, 60; Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster, 40; Radio Program Director Margaret Cuthbert, 52; New York Times Editorialist AnneO'Hare McCormick, sixtyish; International Business Machines Vice President Ruth Leach, 29; and New Jersey's Congresswoman Mary T. Norton...
...themeless like some, and extravagant like all that hope to attain box-office success, "Three to Make Ready" contains some highly amusing dancing by Ray Bolger, plushy but tasteful sets by Donald Oenslager, bright music by Morgan Lewis, and a few interesting but mostly pointless skits, directed by Margaret Webster...