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Most ominous element on the periodical waste paper counter was the tome of the B. J. Field titled "The Prospects of American Capitalism" which appeared to be worth only a nickel, with no takers at closing time...
...explained in detail how the "get tough with Russia" foreign policy would lead to clearly-defined and amicable Soviet-American relations, while a nebulous policy of compromise, such as he said the Wallace element advocates, would invite unlimited Soviet aggrandizement and make war inevitable...
Back in Rio last week, silver-maned Mangabeira, a kindly, top-heavy-looking politician with shoulders like Joe Louis' and legs like Babe Ruth's, found himself the most important man in the country. He was right in his element. For months he had talked coalition; now he had a chance to do something about...
...other fundamental element in today's rapid pace, according to Harlow, is the man in motion. Only in the past two years has the use of the back in motion reached its ultimate refinement in the T formation. First crudely evolved from the Chicago Bear approximation of the T, the motion-left-and-right was quickly-adapted by Charlie Caldwell of Princeton to the single wing. "With a man in motion, a play can always explode," is the opinion of one of the device's fathers, Coach Harlow. The resulting strain on the ingenuity of the defensive secondary lines...
...total of the evening is a remarkably well-balanced serving of Coward, tremendously enhanced by his expert direction. Even in the weak moments of "Fumed Oak," the element timing of action and dialogue carries the audience past the inherent failures of the work: and although the middle-class experiment fails through author's in ability to combine his overeager social consciousness with a saving fluency of dialogue, the director's fine sense of timing and contrast save the piece as a whole. Indeed, the neatly-balanced combination of Coward and Coward make the Shubert bill worth...