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...moppet in Carl Rose's famed New Yorker cartoon who said "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it," got some support last week from an unexpected quarter-the deadly serious letters column of the deadly serious British Medical Journal. The B.MJ. had recently pontificated that "spinach would seem to be particularly valuable for the nutrition of children, provided they can be persuaded to acquire a liking for its somewhat bitter taste." Not so, snapped back a London husband & wife team, Physician Joan E. Bamji and Chemist Nariman S. Bamji:' the stuff...
Honest Exuberance. Wonderful Town is a simple musical fable about two venturesome Ohio sisters who invade Manhattan. One (Edith Adams) has a come-hither eye; the other (Rosalind Russell) has a go-to manner. Based on the humorous New Yorker short stories by Ruth McKenney, the show has had a long dramatic history: it was a 1940 Broadway hit as My Sister Eileen, starring this year's Oscar-winning Shirley Booth (see CINEMA). Rosalind made the movie version in 1942 and has played the role of Ruth in a dozen radio broadcasts. Though always successful, the show was never...
Kazin was the Literary Editor of "The New Republic" in the early 'forties, and is a frequent contributor to "The New Yorker." During the summer of1947, Kazin lectured at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies...
...cartoonist for the New Yorker, Soglow is also the creator of The Little King which he new draws for King Features Syndicate. He is the author of the book, "Wasn't the Depression Terrible?" This is the tenth of the series on Harvard's new president. The next prediction will came from Yale and will appear in Thursday's paper...
Bandleader Edwards and his 15-man crew were selected because of their warm reception at last year's freshman Jubilee. Since then they have performed at the Commodore, the New Yorker, and other Eastern hotels...