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...Traditionally the little magazine serves two purposes: it offers a haven to the experimental, and it also gives early publication to new talent (which is not always the same thing). To keep an eye on the little magazine is to keep an eye on both the future and the futureless...
...than 1,200 performances of his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight!, in more than 250 cities. An added measure of Mark Twain's enduring success is financial. Although he nearly always had to scramble for money, had miserable luck as an investor (he sank thousands into a futureless typesetting machine, turned young Alexander Graham Bell away from his doorstep without a cent), the author's estate last week, as reported to a Connecticut probate judge, was worth a figure approaching half a million dollars. In 1959 Mark Twain earned $57,691-mainly for his daughter Clara...
...support of Democratic candidates is the only way to eliminate arch-crooks from city government, the Shattuck-Forbes-Lund advice is correct. But in a year when Republicans might have won several seats on the Council it amounts to a sellout, one which will render the GOP impotent and futureless...
Alternatives. Was that bleak and futureless policy all that U.N. troops in Korea could hope for? In the Administration's sparse pronouncements, there was only one slight indication of change. MacArthur had been told that if the Chinese should throw a large air force into battle, he was authorized to bomb their bases in Manchuria. In short, it was for the Chinese to decide whether to give MacArthur a new plan of battle. Meanwhile, behind the Yalu, the Reds concentrated troops and aircraft, held the initiative awarded to them by the statesmen...
...wangled a letter to the business manager of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Miss Garson strong-armed him into starting her at ?4 a week instead of ?3. For two years she played leads. After that, Greer did walk-ons and held garlands in highly respectable and futureless productions of Shakespeare in Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. She was about to leave the theater a suicide note and go back to Commerce. But one night, while Greer was in the bleak gentility of The University Women's Club, high-glazed, handsome Authoress Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring...