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...mediocre plays (The Green Hat, The Age of Innocence, Dishonored Lady) with fat, showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written for the stage, she reclined on the most spotlighted sofa in theatrical history...
This week the longest (328 pages) English-language biography of Physicist Albert Einstein, now the most distinguished resident of Princeton, N. J., was published by H. Gordon Garbedian, a science writer on the staff of the New York Times.* Brightest spots in Mr. Garbedian's book are the Einstein anecdotes. Samples...
...climax of the schedule, longest in Harvard fencing annals, will be the Yale meet March 18. On comparative scores, the Crimson will be heavy favorites to avenge the defeats of the past two years, since Hartford triumphed over the Elis earlier in the year. There will also be a J.V. contest, the first in Crimson-Blue history...
...riders" (jumpers) are judged on form and distance (in two jumps). At last week's championships the 20,000 spectators who gathered in St. Paul's Battle Creek Park held their breaths when it was Reidar Andersen's turn. He is credited with one of the longest leaps on record (340 ft.) and his form is said to be the world's most magnificent...
...Bank of America (Manhattan) in 1931, sold working control in Bancamerica-Blair to San Francisco Financier Ashby Oliver Stewart, who is now chairman of the board (TIME, Dec. 26). Obvious choice as active head of the firm was hard-working Hearn Streat, not only the employe with the longest service but credited in Wall Street as the underwriter with the widest acquaintance in the business. Last week he became vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee. Simultaneously, Bancamerica-Blair resumed (subject to stockholders' approval) its maiden name of Blair...