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...Franklin, N. H.; Robert Paine '42, Memphis, Tenn.; Harold C. Passer '43, Faribault, Minn.; Donald J. Patton '42, Cortaro, Ariz.; Dick S. Payne '43, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Daniel M. Pearce '42, Ripley, Tenn.; Jack M. Peterson '42, Portland, Ore.; Alan W. Petit '41, Berkeley, Calif.; Chris G. Petrow '41, Webster City, Ia.; Norman H. Pike '42, Sioux City...
...carry a final coal to Newcastle, the supporting cast with Wesley Addy, Mark Smith and June Walker rounds out the complete whole. Despite its two stars the brilliance of "Twelfth Night" lies in its balance. From Margaret Webster's direction and Stewart Chaney's sets down to the last jigging dance, not a jog is amiss...
...Roosevelt political magic was still at work-adroit and fluent as ever, he somehow managed to make Federal spending merely a matter of building schools, and to link free education with his administration in untroubled defiance of the shades of Noah Webster and Horace Mann. This was as effective an answer as he had yet made to Wendell Willkie's charge that a continuation of New Deal policies meant a new economic system in the U. S. -but it was an answer, and it was effective...
Both novels are about George Webber, a bulky, simian creature with knee-length dangling arms and a Webster-length vocabulary. In The Web and the Rock, George left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after...
...between the U. S. and Hitler. Ohio's plodding Taft did not deny that trained men were needed, proposed to get them by creating a volunteer corps of 1,250,000 trained reserves. Dug from the files of the New Hampshire Historical Society was a speech by Daniel Webster, opposing "Mr. Monroe's draft" in the third year of the War of 1812. Senators who heard the quoted words of Daniel Webster last week found that changed U. S. circumstances had not greatly altered arguments against conscription. Congressman Webster on Dec. 9, 1814 put his trust in volunteers...