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...Stanley Marcus, balding boss of the Dallas-in-Wonderland Nieman-Marcus specialty shop (its specialty is selling chichi clothes to rich Texans), went the Chevalier Award of the French Legion of Honor, for "eminent services to the cause of French industrial and commercial recovery...
Everything from a modern interpretive "reaction to examinations" to dance movements to poetry are in the offing. The Dance Group will also present studies in technique of several pieces from the Alice in Wonderland duchess-lobster quadrille and a Negro spiritual number...
Dwyer's performance as prosecutor was equally incredible. During the first hearing, when McDowell was the judge, Dwyer blithely put forth an Alice-in-Wonderland case, full of ghostly "evidence" and interesting inconsistencies. In spite of the vigorous protests of Dr. Van Waters' attorney, McDowell solemnly accepted his deputy's offerings, partly through his undeniable bias and partly through his lack of legal training...
...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...
...Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...