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When Playwright Shaw asked Pascal how much money he had, Pascal replied: "Fifteen shillings and sixpence-but I owe a pound." As much delighted with this effrontery as with Pascal's obvious admiration for his work, Playwright Shaw gave him a pound to pay his debts, agreed to the experiment. With Shaw's approval for his project he had little trouble getting as much as he needed. He assembled about $250,000-less than Hollywood spends on most quickies. He hired Screenwriters W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis to write a scenario, rented a studio...
...week at Lord & Taylor's) on a complete change of windows, usually stay up all one night at least with a squad of carpenters, painters, dressers, electricians. Every window display is tied up with merchandising, but this tie-up in the last few years has changed. Display directors owe half their fun to a Depression-born business axiom: "Sell the store as well as the merchandise...
...doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing returned to the days before the present yachting craze, back to the sea and wind and men who owe their livelihood to them. The sight of Ben Pine and Angus Walters behind those two wheels is a fine one; and the world will be missing something when the influx of beam trawlers, Diesels and the hustle and bustle of today make it no more than a memory...
Chairman Hochman believes that labor unions owe to their members education and fun as well as higher wages, that "man does not live by bread alone." Mr. Hochman and the union's able educational director, British-born Mark Starr, think that a worker is not fully educated in high school or college. Purpose of their workers' education program: to remove "prejudices" acquired in public schools, fill gaps, give workers "realistic" attitudes toward labor, teach them how a union works...
...collection presents all of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in about the best light available. More interesting to most readers will be ten "anonymous" translations of Aristophanes in which that playwright's obscenity is done full justice for the first time in contemporary English. Though "anonymous." these versions apparently owe much of their modern flavor to revision by young (28), untrammeled Editor O'Neill, an instructor in classics at Yale...