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Connolly knew that sooner or later, by accident or design, most highbrow "little mags" duck down some intellectual by path.* At its end is a trap: mixed up in parlor politics, or tripped up by literary politics, they spend their days tootling for whatever cause they are stuck with. To save his long-haired baby from that fate, Connolly kept its own horizon wide. He refused to embrace - or to exclude - any cultural point of view, held to a catholic determination to work both sides of civilization's broad thoroughfares...
...getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder...
...sure, for that matter, whether Lincoln or Drinkwater wrote it. But afterwards many Japs slip backstage and tell the actors how much they admire the speech. Most Allied civilians who attend the show (the theater is out of bounds for the military) find it so long-winded that they duck out before the end. The only criticism they have voiced is that Lincoln's trousers are much too nattily creased. Accordingly, before one recent performance, while top-hatted "Secretary Seward" squatted crosslegged, eating rice with chopsticks, "President Lincoln" went busily to work rumpling his trousers. Then President Lincoln...
...Women. In Camden, N.J., Mrs. Lillian Kerney went to court, got her divorce. Grounds: her husband made her duck under the dashboard when he drove past a girl friend...
Since it began, four months ago, Request Performance (CBS, Sun., 9-9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) has attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...