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...House That Thayer Built. Few West Pointers have made so dramatic an entrance or so notable an exit as First Captain Robert Woods. But most of what happened to Woody in the three-year interim was what happens to every cadet. He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...
This week Mrs. Caruso, a handsome, white-haired woman in her early 50s, will publish the story of her three-year marriage to the bombastic Italian opera king (Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; Simon and Schuster, $2.75). Wisely, she made no changes in the picturesque, Italian-English in which Caruso brought her his daily dramas...
...Social Council is to be the only body directly subject to the General Assembly. This agency is to work on "international economic, social and other humanitarian problems and promote respect for "human rights and fundamental freedoms." The members, representing eighteen states, are to be elected by the Assembly for three-year terms...
Leopold Stokowski, who does things in the grandiose manner, signed a three-year contract to direct the Hollywood Bowl's musical activities and conduct its summer concerts. Said starry-eyed Stokowski: "The poetic setting of the Bowl under the stars . . . the poetry of the night and the stars go together. I love to conduct . . . where so many people can enjoy music in the open air beneath the stars...
...problem faced the New York Post Syndicate, which signed Welles to a three-year contract: would the column hold Welles's interest, as well as the reader's? Welles, who has taken a Hollywood highbrow's vocal interest in the world since 1940, was reassuring. "Right now I'm much more interested in politics and foreign affairs than I am in the theater," said he. "I have set up my life in such a way that I can spend more than occasional time on these interests...