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...Another Language. Most of them are now distinctly middleaged, almost all of them still invincibly middleclass. Doughty Grandma Hallam (well played by Ethel Grimes) still trumpets the glories and responsibilities of the Hallams' name, still tries to keep them all together-and all of them under her thumb...
These knowing rules-of-thumb for the aspiring back pose as "Advice to the Young Writer," and in the confusion between the two there is a danger that Signature has failed to notice. If a college literary magazine advises young writers to serve up the saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping and Glamour prefer, 1960's novelists may very well be a bunch of alayeys, modeling their work to the taste of every tired, disillusioned woman's magazine editor. Signature would have done better if they tried to obtain local writer-teachers such as Albert Guerard or John Ciardi to give...
...Thumb-twiddling in local bookstores will come to a quick and today when Memorial Hall opens its doors to authorization-seeking veterans at 9 o'clock. The Mem Hall office will be open daily until February...
...speculator's rules of thumb had gone by the board. Once brokers thought stocks were worth buying if they sold at no more than ten times their annual earnings. But last week, even the 30 "blue chips" used to measure the Dow-Jones industrial average were selling at only 8½ times their earnings, the lowest ratio in over 20 years...
Make Mine Manhattan (music by Richard Lewine; lyrics and sketches by Arnold Horwitt; produced by Joseph Hyman) offers gay, lively, irreverent homage to the world's most densely populated island. East Side, West Side, all around the town it darts, its thumb to its nose, but with a slightly dreamy look in its eyes. Manhattanites, swelling, with small-town pride at its air of big-town savvy, will be the show's best audience. But out-of-towners, whether from Butte or Brooklyn, should find...