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...with "Human Rights" the subject of his three talks, the last of which will be given tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, Stassen announced at a press conference on Tuesday that he would not be drawn into what he called "partisan politics." The ex-governor deemed the background of his lectures as inappropriate for swinging either on the Democrats or on the more conservative wing of his own party...
...England last week. The dramatization of Stephen Vincent Benét's Pulitzer-prize poem filled an hour and a half over the BBC, but it was worth it. Britons heard an eloquent adaptation by an American: Joel O'Brien, former assistant to Norman Corwin. In the background was a remarkable musical score by 24-year-old British Composer Arthur Oldham. Even his original Negro spirituals, set to Benét's words and inspired by listening to Hall Johnson records, sounded authentic. To Britons it all was more than a broadcast; it was a lesson...
...approaching middle age, 75-year-old Professor Charles Howard McIlwain is due to retire at the end of the present term. He leaves Harvard as the world's foremost authority on the background of the English Constitution, a subject satisfying his real love for history, though he officially labors under the title of Eaton Professor of the Sciences of Government...
Wellesley (the town) was gerrymandered by Republicans in 1940 to throw its straight-ticket G.O.P. weight into a neutral district, so George R. Kelly '44 will take the stump next fall to see if his Irish-veteran-Harvard background can put him, as a Democrat, into the State House of Representatives...
...amateurs. . . . Metamorphosis, the very essence of histrionic art, is utterly foreign to these actors. [They] do not realize that they are leading the brilliant but short lives of dazzling butterflies. . . . The few really great actors remaining in Hollywood-a Chaplin or a Garbo-fade ever further into the background...