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Burning Bright (by John Steinbeck; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein 2nd) suggests that misused talent can be more distressing than none at all. In this reversible raincoat of a "play-novelette,"* Steinbeck tells of a sterile husband (Kent Smith) with a fierce yearning for parenthood. His wife (Barbara Bel Geddes), out of love for him, conspires to have a child by another man. At first crushed and incensed when he learns the truth, he is at length comforted with a transcendental sense of being the father not of one child but of all children...
When Prince Igor Troubetzkoy threatened court action to make his wife come home and act like a wife, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Hutton declared that her fourth husband was no bargain either. Said Barbara from Madrid: "He's one of the cheapest men I've ever met in my life. He only married me for my money...
...night Dunham showed up with a girl who could sing. He had met Barbara Leacock, Wellesley '51, on a blind date. The good-looking brunette had a voice that pleased Dunham's fellow musicians and she became a featured vocalist on the band's College engagements during the following year. They put on two concerts in the Lowell House Junior Common Room and broadcast Monday nights...
...Miss Barbara Witten, Mademoiselle's "college board" editor, will be the Annex' guest for a Moors Hall dinner with a dozen campus leaders. A demi-tasse hour in Moors will follow immediately, and is open to any 'Cliffedwellers interested in the contest. Miss Witten will be present to answer questions...
...want politicians taking care of me when I'm sick"), against racial restrictions in public housing, denied he had been ordered to run for office by Wall Street bankers ("the biggest lie of all time"). The most titillating question came from a Columbia University student named Barbara E. Scott. Why, she asked, did he wear a mustache? Answer: shaving hurts the Dewey upper...