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Albert Kourek, professor emeritus at North western university where Pound started his long teaching career, summed up the general feeling with his statement: "In our time in this country in the field of legal philosophy, one alpine peak has appeared above the surrounding landscape. This is Roscoe Pound...
...which had expanded enough to build 96,000 planes in 1944, had been forced to contract to a production of only 1.330 military planes last year. The industry, which had not been able to cut its overhead accordingly, could not survive without larger orders. Commercial orders have passed their peak and by next year the airlines may have just about all the planes they will need for a long time. The Army & Navy had little to offer but sympathy. Present budget schedules, which will probably be cut, will allow them to order only 1,500 planes next year, half...
When The Green Pastures opened on Broadway in 1930, Variety thought it was "dreadfully lacking in box-office ability," predicted that "a ten-week stay ... should be sufficient." Variety was dreadfully wrong. Alexander Woollcott, guessing better in the New Yorker, said it was "the highest peak in the range of the American theater." Brooks Atkinson, in the Times, called it "the divine comedy of the modern theater." The Green Pastures (based on Roark Bradford's stories) won a Pulitzer Prize, ran for five years, played 1,779 performances in 203 cities to nearly two million people, grossed...
...time in this country in the field of legal philosophy, one alpine peak has appeared above the surrounding landscape," said Albert Kourek, professor emeritus at Northwestern. "This is Roscoe Pound...
...Lockheed Constellation last week with newsmen and headed out over the Pacific near Los Angeles. He flew west until he was opposite the steep mountains beyond Santa Monica, which have reached for many an airplane through California fog. Turning inland, Hughes flew the plane directly toward the highest peak. The bell rang and the light flashed as soon as the radar "cat's whiskers" brushed the rising ground...