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...pockets bursting with mill-gotten gains, a new class of theatre-goers may force a perceptible change upon American drams, Katherine Cornell, one of America's foremost actresses, said last Saturday in her dressing room at the close of the first week's run of "Lovers and Friends...
...many U.S. housewives have gotten such a windfall in the morning mail as came last fortnight to 25-year-old Dorothea Cornwell of Louisville. She had just won the biennial $10,000 prize awarded jointly, by Manhattan Publishers Dodd, Mead & Co. and Redbook* for the best unpublished novel submitted. Author Cornwell's prizewinner, They Dare Not Go AHunting, which was selected from several hundred entries, will run serially this summer in Redbook, appear in book form some time later...
After a long struggle, I have gotten most of our New England journals to realize that the classic remark, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it" (TIME, March 20) was not Mark Twain's. . . . Charles Dudley Warner, Associate Editor of the Hartford Courant, was the man. Mark Twain did say (or write), "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes...
Posnickety. In Springfield, Mass., Mailman Fred Anthony got a letter from overseas Sergeant Simon Posnick: "I have learned from [my wife] that it has gotten to such a point that [she] says she could kiss you every time you bring a letter from me. You see what a dilemma...
...farm-focused Department of Economics and Sociology, declared that faculty morale was jeopardized and switched to the University of Chicago. By last week 19 other teachers had quit the college on leave or permanently. Twelve were from Professor Schultz's department, whose remnant inevitably seems cowed. Some had gotten better jobs at Vassar, Wisconsin, Harvard or in Government agencies. Some declared that they were fed-up with the administration's constant kowtowing to the Farm Bureau...