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...initiation rites begin in a small Mississippi River town in the '30s, with several of the stories pivoting around two youngsters named Jason and Ira Garrett. In Chip Canary, Jason tangles with the town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby carriage full of junk and dubbed-for some shadowy peccadillo of the past-"Chip Canary." In a moment of adolescent bravado Jason yells out this taboo nickname, then breaks and runs. That night, snug in bed, Jason smiles as he hears his father say to his mother...
...River Stay 'way from My Door, it is brother Ira's harum-scarum pal "V.R." who puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting...
...Broadway is thus the only real showcase for both actors and playwrights. Several companies wish to produce new plays exclusively, thus achieving a workshop for both actor and writer that is self-supporting. Among these is Ira Cirker's New Theatre Company, which has taken a lease on the Jan Hus Theatre. Not only do these artists hope to get their daily bread, but also to mold a dynamic and living theatre. The Shakespearewrights are one of the most promising of these groups. Composed largely of Yale Drama School graduates, they have produced several works of the bard...
...After equaling the world's indoor record for the 60-yd. dash (6.1 sec.) in a semifinal heat, Olympian Ira Murchison nosed out the Army's Ken Kave in the finals...
Elected vice president was Robert C. Eberhart '58 of Kirkland House and Drindo, Calif. Ira M. Lapidus of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y., was chosen secretary, and George N. Rogentine, Jr. '58 of Kirkland House and Jackson, Minn., treasurer...