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...offices. And it is far more severe than it used to be on farms. Big business, on the other hand, is not, as often described, a single pail of anxiously writhing worms. Some giant corporations have become "settled societies" of their own, in which the rungs of the promotion ladder are neatly numbered and everybody knows when he may have his chance to step up. But in advertising, communications and entertainment, anxiety is extensive and vociferously proclaimed; half the name actors on Broadway and in Hollywood have been analyzed, and the others should never be allowed off the couch...
...real highlights of the show. An unfortunate love duet between Adams and Lund is happily broken up by the entrance of John Valentine as an aerial Cupid. Later, Valentine and Pete White make something hilarious out of the hackeney comic concept of two drunken electrians fooling around with a ladder. Francis Mahard's sets are many and uniformly excellent, as are the costumes designed by Theoni Aldredge...
Sophomore Paul Sullivan has the top spot on the ladder at present, ahead of last number one man, Bob Bowditch. Doug Walter is currently playing three, captain Peter Smith number four. Mark Woodbury and Bob Schwartzman...
...distant high school reputations and early season breaks rather than because of proven superiority. And because coaches must devote time to basic instruction such as tackling and blocking -- the bulk of which could be handled in the spring -- much of the time for scrimmages, which determine the team's ladder, is cut down. Ivy coaches, many of whom agree that the present system is in this sense unfair, argue that they have too little time to develop players and turn out top rate football teams...
...kind of bridge between reality and dreams, Hultberg exaggerates perspective. The eye no sooner lights upon some familiar surface-a deck, a dock, a piece of roof-than it is drawn through some sudden opening, whisked up a ladder or a plank, flipped into space. Occasionally a whole painting is made up of windows, each with a separate world behind it. The shadowy figures lurking here or there are merely spectators: ''They put the viewer into the picture...