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Joseph Wood Krutch, biographer-critic (The Modern Temper; Edgar Allan Poe) and drama editor of the Nation, has made one of the most thorough examinations yet of Johnson and his friends. His biography, jampacked with Johnsoniana, is no specialist's study: it is for the general reader, who may find parts of it?such as the chapters on Johnson as critic and philosopher?slowgoing. But he can hardly fail to enjoy the lovingly collected abundance of anecdotes and sayings which are Johnson's rightful claim to fame...
...with her secretary (Marsha Hunt) and all but bangs the pair's heads together. The surprising finished product is the result of the fact that the film is written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, directed by Richard Wallace and played by the Misses Day and Hunt, Mr. Marshal, Allan Joslyn, and able supporters Edgar Buchanan and Slim Summerville, as if this sort of thing might conceivably happen to real, and rather likable, people. Biggest surprise: Miss Day's charming, sexy flair for light comedy...
...Niffnaw, a U.S. colloquialism, means a teapot-tempest. It may possibly be derived from the old Scottish dialect word niffnaff, meaning "trifle " example (from a poem by Scottish Poet Allan Ramsay...
...York City's Municipal Asphalt Plant (see cut), exterior designed by Manhattan's Ely Jacques Kahn and Robert Allan Jacobs, once inspired the city's terrible-tempered Park Commissioner Robert Moses to remark: "Horrible modernistic stuff . . . what could be worse?" But it is doubtful whether many New Yorkers will long feel that way about a building whose flowing, oval contours harmonize so well with the serpentine East River Drive on which it stands...
Other demonstrations in the series included one on the equipment, personnel, setting-up, and operation of a Battalion Aid Station by Capt. Allan Lerner, Surgeon, of the 241st Coast Artillery, and a lecture on types of military motors, motor maintenance, tactical motor marches, and motor discipline by Capt. Bennie Hill, Motor Officer from Ft. Devens. On successive Saturdays, ending tomorrow, one-third of the students have proceeded to Ft. Devens by motor march for a field day at that Post, and a tour to observe the field sanitary demonstration area, infiltration course, infantry weapons, firing, booby traps, the station hospital...