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...substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story for the old lady's complete blotting out, it substitutes an international intrigue, two British cricket fanciers and a mort of shootings and stranglings...
Last fall T.C.'s garrulous, conservative Dean William Fletcher Russell, who believes that not more than 2% of his faculty leans to the left, decided to show businessmen their mistake. Professor Paul R. Mort, director of the college's Advanced School of Education, invited business executives to a conference with the professors. Three critics of business-Professors George Sylvester Counts, F. Ernest Johnson and Edward Hartman Reisner-thereupon started the fur flying. Four businessmen hit back-Mark M. Jones, president of Akron Belting Co.; George Harrison Houston, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president...
Still hopeful of bringing businessmen and schoolmen closer together, Professor Mort appointed a committee to clarify the issues. The committee needed ten topics and 24 subdivisions to catalogue the disagreements. Last week the four businessmen and three educators sat down before an audience of professors and students in Columbia's Milbank Chapel to thresh the matter out. Flanking Dean Russell, they sprawled in their chairs, wriggled and squirmed, stared at the ceiling, never got beyond Subdivision 3 of Topic I. Crux of the argument was not education but the "private enterprise system" v. "planned economy...
What first-nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...
...them for service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint, in its general mood and in its unsqueamish record of obscenity, belongs with such contemporary records as Louis-Ferdinand Celine's untranslated La Mort A Credit (Death on the Instalment Plan) and Henry Miller's obsessed story of expatriates in Paris, The Tropic of Cancer. In the Library of Congress the two copies of The Mint are kept in the office of the secretary of the Library, mild, good-natured Martin A. Roberts...