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...cast of characters begins in 1923 with Charlie Chaplin and Warren G. Harding, and marches on in these four issues through years in which the figures on center stage range from Herbert Hoover to Booth Tarkington to Clara Bow, from Joe Louis to Adolf Hitler to Virginia Woolf, from Douglas MacArthur to Joe McCarthy to George Orwell. Each issue becomes a history of its year, not only tracing the overriding central themes - the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War - but also providing vignettes that help bring people alive...
...horror that issued from the trial of Adolph Eichmann. But in London last week, audiences reeling out of the St. Martin's Theater were convinced that they had experienced something like a surrealistically twisted version of the Eichmann affair. The play is The Man in the Glass Booth. The booth is a criminal's bulletproof dock, but the drama is anything but shatterproof...
...Wigglings." For all the popularity of his works, Sandburg never fared well in academe. Critic Edmund Wilson observed of the Lincoln biography: "There are moments when one is tempted to feel that the crudest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg." A kind of pseudo-folksy affectation came into some of Sandburg's work. Such criticism never troubled the poet. He was an old-fashioned storyteller, and when an interviewer once mentioned modern poetry, Sandburg snorted: "I say to hell with the new poetry. Sometimes...
...Hollywood packaging agency announced that it was working up yet a new variation on the theme. It will be called The Newly Pregnant. "Specifically," explained one of the producers, "it's a group of three pregnant women who appear onstage while their husbands are kept in an isolation booth. The women are asked questions about raising children. Then they go into the booth, and their husbands are asked the same questions. The couple whose answers most nearly match win complete free hospital care and perhaps layettes and things like that...
Bell Laboratories engineer, explains that she conceived of it because "people are too alienated. In the booth they can get information about themselves." She would like to have the Minuphone mass-produced and installed in streets and parks. Neither former New York City Parks Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving nor his successor, August Heckscher, has so far shown any interest; considering the Parks Department's well-known fondness for hippy-go-lucky happenings, there's always hope...