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...Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster. "Illustrates the lawyer's duty of fidelity to his client...
...vigorously hedged: Shakespeare should be read, too, just as children should occasionally be heard. But reading "The Winter's Tale" before seeing the current grandiose and interpretively satisfactory Theatre Guild production is less profitable and less necessary than is reading, say, "The Tempest" before seeing a stylized Margaret Webster...
...Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe is moderator on the current events programs...
Privy O.K. The American invasion has been so successful that the most determined British purist cannot even counterattack without unconsciously employing Americanisms. Most Englishmen would be astonished to learn, for instance, that businessman, governmental, graveyard, law-abiding, lengthy, overcoat and telegram are of U.S. origin. And even Noah Webster would be surprised to learn that O.K. ("without question the most successful of all Americanisms, old or new") has recently been approved by the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Privy Council, which "decided formally that inscribing O.K. upon a legal document 'meant that the details contained...
...Mountains. Like an ever-growing snowball the Manhattan District rolled around the nation, picking up men (125,000), money ($2,000,000,000), mountains of materials, trainloads of equipment. It enlisted famed corporations - Eastman, Dupont, Stone & Webster, Union Carbide and Carbon, and others...