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...only one-The Eve of St. Mark-dealt seriously with the war; only three others-The Patriots, Harriet and Tomorrow the World-dealt seriously with anything. Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
...Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed, Pulitzer Prize-winning story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, for The Skin of Our Teeth...
Upton Sinclair was singled out for his "Dragon's Teeth," a novel published by an American and dealing with American life. "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's fantasy now running on Broadway, was given an award for "the American play, performed in New York, which represents in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage." Hanson W. Baldwin of the New York Times, was designated at the year's most distinguished correspondent on the basis of his South Pacific report. Either Forbes' "Paul Revere and the World Be Lived In" earned the prize for the best...
...team that is tackling this job for you is headed by Editor Wilder Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...