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...members planned to spend it quietly. Because of the shortage of foreign exchange mistletoe, usually imported from France, was virtually nonexistent, and commodities, from potatoes to caviar, were also in short supply. Although Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers out of a hat to decide who gets a bird. Pray...
BERNARD SHAW (242 pp.)-Eric Bentley -New Directions...
Pose of Arrogance. Worshipful Critic Eric Bentley, who has tried to truss Shavian doctrine into a system of thought, is one of the few who still pay unflagging homage to Shaw's ideas. For him Shaw is not merely a brilliant playwright who handled the English language with a clarity and wit unrivaled since Swift; Shaw is also a profound thinker whose "pose of arrogance was a deliberate strategy in an utterly altruistic struggle" to irritate men into thought. But the "utterly altruistic struggle" failed, and there was Shaw's tragedy: he, the court jester, was idolized...
Proffered by the 1948 Album Board, the Prize Fund consists of a profit earned by the '43 yearbook under Reed's direction, Eric Larrabee '43, announced yesterday in New York that the first board of judges will include Frederick Lewis Allen, editor of Harper's Magazine, Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation...
Coach Hal Ulen has a knack of sifting talent in unpromising disguises. Before Forbes "Ted" Norris ever stepped into the shallow pool for a splash, Ulen had fashioned a two-year high scorer in '39 and '40 out of Eric Cutler, a victim of polio taking the aquatic form of treatment...