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...chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers Kennedy chose Liberal Walter Heller-but the new Treasury Secretary will be Republican Douglas Dillon, who last week warned Congressmen not to expect any revolutionary New Frontier economic policies (see BUSINESS). Indeed, in almost every area of Government, Kennedy has selected the wilder-eyed liberals to fill second ary posts-and placed them under the thumbs of able moderates...
...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...Thornton Wilder (parodied by Kenneth Tynan...
...APARTMENT. The sourly funniest U.S. comedy since 1959's Some Like It Hot-which also starred Jack Lemmon and was also directed by Billy Wilder...
...Brown: "Jago might indulge his emotions, act with a fervour that Brown thought excessive and in bad taste, . . . show nothing like the solid rational decorums which was Brown's face to the world. Brown's affection did not budge. In the depth of his heart he loved Jago's wilder outbursts, and wished that he could have gone that way himself. Had he sacrificed too much in reaching his own robust harmony? Had he become too dull a dog? For Brown's harmony had not arrived in a minute. People saw that fat contented man, rested on his steady strength...