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Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...
Named to participate in the Triangle Series with Yale and Princeton, beginning Wednesday, May 18, were Julius Adler, David L. Auerbach, Leo Bersand, Allen J. Lichtenberg, John G. Morey, and Lester L. Ward, all of the Class...
...many were delighted with the S.R.L. story. Said Executive Editor Lee Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
Along with the normal heritage of broken noses, trick elbows and collapsible knees, old football players often take with them into later life the habit of explaining contemporary events in terms of gridiron metaphor. Last week Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Lester Bowles Pearson, onetime University of Toronto football coach, said at an Ottawa banquet...
...Landlords in Tulsa, Chicago, Denver and Kansas City threatened to evict tenants and take more than 100,000 apartments off the market if rent control is extended. In Kansas City, the Rev. R. Lester Mondale indignantly notified a group of rebel property owners gathered in his church's meeting hall that he had increased their rent for the hall from $10 to $100 a meeting...