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Mr. Atkinson Breaks a Record and His Neck

This is the time of the year when Supreme Court decisions come down on us by the yard and, consequently, no secular power can prevent Mr. Brooks Atkinson from delivering his ultimate findings. And the fast Mr. Atkinson, who is the unquestioned czar of the American theater by the sheer force of his witlessness, has this year outrun himself. “The season (1955-56) will go down in the record books,” he pronounced from his pulpit in the Sunday Times “as by all odds the finest in years—the finest since 1929…”

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Mr. Atkinson Breaks a Record and His Neck

This is the time of the year when Supreme Court decisions come down on us by the yard and, consequently, no secular power can prevent Mr. Brooks Atkinson from delivering his ultimate findings. And the fast Mr. Atkinson, who is the unquestioned czar of the American theater by the sheer force of his witlessness, has this year outrun himself. “The season (1955-56) will go down in the record books,” he pronounced from his pulpit in the Sunday Times “as by all odds the finest in years—the finest since 1929…”