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...some ways, we are worse off than we were a century ago, said Dr. Abel Wolman, professor of sanitary engineering at Johns Hopkins, and our boasted progress in health is not as great as many like to think. There is hardly a stream in the U.S. that is not more polluted than it was 100 years ago, and, said Dr. Wolman, "there is hardly a city in Massachusetts or one in the rest of the U.S. in which the conditions of housing are not essentially worse than those, at which the Shattuck report * directed severe criticism." In Washington...
...Toscanini's Shoes. Conductor de Sabata had been heard in the U.S. only once before, 21 years ago in Cincinnati. A friend of his in Milan, Arturo Toscanini, had urged him to go to Cincinnati, and when De Sabata got back to Milan, Toscanini had prepared another job for him. Victor de Sabata has been filling Toscanini's shoes at La Scala ever since. Some Italian critics, in fact, rate him above Toscanini as a conductor, an excess of praise which De Sabata doesn't seek. He still refers to Toscanini as "Maestro" and means it literally...
Even when it was new, 17 years ago, Noel Coward's Private Lives was no great shakes as a play. When it was revived this fall on Broadway, it had plainly not improved with the years. But last week, as it has for the past six weeks, Private Lives was packing the Plymouth Theater with as many standees as the New York Fire Department will allow. What the customers were crowding to see was not so much a play as a remarkable personality with a remarkable name: Tallulah Bankhead...
Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds recognizes the tendency in his own college, and he doesn't like it. In his annual report to the trustees this week, President Dodds deplored what he called "a flight from the humanities." Twenty-five years ago, 44% of Princeton students were registered in the humanities; now the proportion is only about half that (24%). A good many of the students now concentrating on political, social and economic problems would do better, he said, to mine some of "our rich resources in the humanities . . ." "Undergraduates, like most of us, are subject...
...with Venezuela to operate a twice-a-week service between Caracas and Rome. Transocean was no pinfeathered newcomer to flying; it is already the biggest contract carrier in the world. More remarkable, in the money-losing flying business, it has made money ever since it started 2½ years ago. To do so, it has become a jack of all airline trades and a master of several. Some of its deals...