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...book develops between two men who, by type and training, are least inclined to go at each other's throats: the president of a small Negro college and the white editor of a small liberal newspaper. Each thinks he is working for equality, but Editor Cal Thornton is on the board that approves President Ezekiel Rogers' annual budget. To the shame of both of them, the time comes when Editor Thornton makes clear that he and he alone is boss...
Died. John Milton Berdan, 75, longtime Yale professor of English (1903-41); of cerebral thrombosis; in New Haven, Conn. Credited with influencing many well-known writers (Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thornton Wilder) through his popular "Daily Themes" course, Berdan was consulted by Yalemen Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden before they founded TIME...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, working & playing about Europe since September, arrived in Milan to help in the Italian production of an old play (The Skin of Our Teeth) before starting work...
...Victors (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Thornton Wilder; produced by New Stages, Inc.) is sponsored by the same experimental group that last season made a bandbox hit, and then a Broadway hit, of Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute. The new production is by no means so likely to triumph at the box office: it is very little more convincing than The Respectful Prostitute was, and it is a good deal less exciting and scandalous...
...decisions imposed by the system. Composer Kurt Weill joined, but that still left the company with only three dramatists- and a lagging output. This season, however, the Playwrights have a real prospect of getting new blood: Garson Kanin (whose new play is on their current schedule), Ruth Gordon and Thornton Wilder...