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...group of undergraduates in the House. The play was submitted in competition with several professional works and won handily. Its plot deals with the tribulations of an undergraduate who is promised $50,000 if he can get himself "bounced" out of Harvard. His attempts at dismissal involve a maid from Beacon Hill a maid from Charlestown, and a maid...
...cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty: "I mistook Gogarty's white-robed maid for his wife-or his mistress. I expected every poet to have a spare wife." In London last month Dr. Gogarty sued Kavanagh for libel...
...appealing Marchbanks; in clumsier hands Marchbanks can be clowned like a Tarkingtonian adolescent. Onslow Stevens as well as Cromwell has steered clear of extremes. His Morell id not too pompous and too fond of his own voice to be loved by Candida. And Dorothy Sands is the old-maid incarnate in the role of Miss Proserpine Garnett, Morell's typist who is as much in love with him as all his feminine flock...
...admits gloomily, Germans echoed the sentiment of her hotel maid, who gave thanks that "we Germans have Adolf Hitler sent by God to help us." But by the next year Germans had begun talking in words that were oblique and ambiguous. They sang more than they cheered; they read new symbolical meanings in the little literature left to them. Germans, decided Nora Waln, were developing a resilience to Hitler as cunning as that of Chinese peasants...
Said a Hitler Maid, recently promoted to undercover agent, as she dialed a German news broadcast: "You may think that our radio is the voice of our. people, but it is not. The voice of Naziism is trumpeted, but the true voice of Germany is a murmur. . . . We are listening now to news that is never published. What we learn we are passing from one to another...