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Among the surprise acts will be a script acted out by a boy and a girl chosen at random from the audience. Promising an execelelent routine and a Rockette-like accuracy, the All-More Chorus will show that Harvard legs are good for more than standing...
WELCOME TO THE CITY-Irwin Shaw-Random House...
...greatest cubist sculptor. He fled to the U.S. from Unoccupied France last summer with four of his ponderous bronze statues, no money. This week Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip of a bulgy, anthropoid infant. Each is signed with the thumbprint of Sculptor Lipchitz...
...Wittkower and Major Rodger picked at random 52 soldiers who were helpless in the dark; some of them had proved it by wrecking cars. "Most of the men," said the investigators, "ate the ordinary Army food and therefore had plenty of vitamins in their diet." Thorough eye examinations were given to 42 of the men; only one had a physical eye defect that caused his night blindness...
...Little, Brown. Biggest-selling novel of the year was Little, Brown's Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin (TIME, July 21), which has been at or near the top of the list ever since the week it came out. Runners-up were James Hilton's Random Harvest and John P. Marquand's H. M. Pulham, Esquire, both Little, Brown books. Other Little, Brown hits: Nordhoff and Hall's Botany Bay, C. S. Forester's The Captain from Connecticut, Erich Maria Remarque's Flotsam, Helen Maclnnes' Above Suspicion...