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Though most major U.S. corporations back the need for continuing education, resentment flares over high-priced experts who get company-paid degrees and then promptly switch jobs. "This is known as the honor system," says Grumman's Charles E. Mack ruefully. "The company has the honor and the student has the system." But disloyalty is not common, and most engineers hand-picked for advanced training are glad to go back to their old employers-until they need another round of schooling. It is a never-ending process. As Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead put it: "Knowledge keeps no better...
...give a damn about posterity," declared Composer Kurt Weill. "I write for today." Nonetheless, since Weill's death in 1950, his catchy, sophisticated music (September Song, Mack the Knife, Alabama Song) has inspired a fiercely devoted following in the U.S. and abroad and prompted a spate of memorial record albums and revivals, most memorably the phenomenal off-Broadway production (2,707 performances) of his Threepenny Opera...
...smoothly swinging band, which was launched two years ago at Manhattan's St. Regis, and has since played the frug for Luci Johnson in the White House. He plays pieces like Days of Wine and Roses and The Party's Over on the hesitating side, and sheathes Mack the Knife in satin...
...actors are partly Equity and partly amateur, plus 20 ballerinas from the Washington School of the Ballet. They do one play a season, and this summer's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is just right for its setting -full of pageantry and horseplay and Mack Sennett chases...
...heads a sandy downhill charge sitting on skis made from barrel staves, finally leads his men-all wearing nothing but droopy long underwear-in a rampageous free-for-all with renegades who are trying to highjack a shipment of Union gold. Bringing the Civil War era to life in Mack Sennett style calls for a tricky blend of taste and ingenuity that few have tried since Buster Keaton's The General, a silent classic of 1926. In Rear, a whole platoon of actors work up a sweat doing the funny business that one real comedian might have tripped through...