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Cicero & Ceramics. The nation's new schoolmasters range from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Extension Service, which reaches 8,000,000 students, to the Y.M.C.A. with 70,000, to I.B.M. with 16,000, and to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union with 12,700. More than 15 million adult Americans are attending Sunday schools or classes under the auspices of various church groups, nearly 2,000,000 are taking courses from various U.S. libraries, and an estimated 5,000,000 are going to school via TV. At the same time, the foundations are stirring...
Margaret Sullivan, who struggled through the stage version of Samuel Taylors' concoction, can well sympathize with her plight. The story is a sorry garment indeed for leading ladies of such charm. If Miss Hepburn shows it off to better advantage, she has her tender years and coquettish personality to thank. Youth and coquettry are most appealing, but someone should commend to Miss Hepburn the additional value of acting. Almost everyone knows that she is a fine actress and a little proof would scotch the few contrary rumors...
...article written for a special section of Art News Annual (out next month), Wittgens recalls the highlights of the cleaning: "It was found when the restorations were removed that Judas' tunic was bright blue with traces of gold around the collar and that Christ's garment turned out to be flame red, a symbol of His sacrifice. [Before the cleaning job, it was a dirty lime.] In the landscape some bright blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect the most subtle gradations of color in the robes of the apostles, the roseate...
Time has proved that an ex-garment maker can often produce better, more vital, more dramatic, even more sensitive movies than a Yale man. And in yearning for the benediction of the New York critics, the industry can never forget that most of the popcorn eaters who pay its bills, while being good, honest, patriotic, thrifty, well-meaning, healthy, 100% Americans, also tend to be tasteless slobs...
...unable to afford the luxury of a foreign professor. So far, 59 colleges have written in to say they would welcome the idea. Meanwhile, the institute's list remains a roster of tragedy: a onetime embassy charge d'affaires who now works as a clerk in a garment district storehouse, a political scientist whose only U.S. job has been as a cashier in a tenth-rate restaurant, a banker who is now a janitor, and two former ambassadors, one of whom scrapes along as an assistant librarian. The other: "unemployed...