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Foolscap, a curious blend of collegiate and professional showmanship, is spotted with as many dull as amusing moments...
...Auxiliary Bishop John Bertram Peterson, who last month became Bishop of Manchester, N. H. He is not entitled to automatic succession to the archbishopric of Boston. For that, his appointment as Bishop Coadjutor would be necessary.* Boston was pleased last week to get Monsignor Spellman, rating him a balanced blend of spirituality and practicality, resembling more Boston's late benign Archbishop John Joseph Williams, loved by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, than the present rich, intellectual but imperious Cardinal, who in the past nine months has been in headlines, flaying "crooning" (TIME, Jan. 18), "the big moneyed interests...
...professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism, seems to imply. For its gangling lack of intelligence the Professor takes the world to task. Its follies, like its females, show an infinite variety, but there seem to be only nine major categories of human stupidity. "These intermarry and blend in all sorts of combinations. . . . Some rise to glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author Pitkin finds that lack of integration in people's personalities is what makes their...
...recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...
Zimbalist's playing is an almost ideal blend of emotion and intellect. Boxofficially he has been outdone by Kreisler and Heifetz, in one case by emotional appeal, in the other by technical facility. But Zimbalist's prestige has been slowly, steadily growing since he was 9 and playing first violin in his father's orchestra in the Cossack city of Rostov-on-Don. When he was 12 his mother took him to Petrograd to study with Leopold Auer. Until the time of Auer's death, Zimbalist, an acclaimed virtuoso, went to him for advice...