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Still tense and tingling is Odets' study of a bewildered, frustrated, dreaming, moodily rebellious Bronx family, caught in economic toils like wet fish in a net. Secret of the play's power is that it is neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts...
Studebaker Corp. has a neat biography. Founded in 1852 by two bearded brothers who made wagons, it is the U.S.'s oldest vehicle maker. Its net sales once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...
Forming the nucleus are five seniors, with whom several of last year's Freshman team have been training. Hank Rieckin '39, stocky defender of the goal last season, has been moved up to forward position, with George Hanford '41 taking his place in front of the net...
...point out that the net result of a 530-page book by ten famed representatives of pompous and well-financed "progressive education" is just another case of "fuzziness in academic thought" requires either divine arrogance or childlike simplicity...
...fare Independent Subway System, opened by the city in 1932 and operated at a net loss ever since ($17,962,000 in year ending June...