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Harvard's junior varsity heavyweight crew failed to make the finals of the first Holmes Pierrepont regatta for elite eights at Nottingham, England, Saturday, finishing third behind varsity powerhouses from Northeastern and the University of Washington...
...Ross and Richard Adler a chance. They made the most of it. Pajama Game (1954) was a smash. If Frank Loesser believed in his friends and proteges, he also believed in himself. And who could blame him if once in a while he serenaded himself with the song J. Pierrepont Finch sings to his mirror in How to Succeed...
...Succeed details the rise of one J. Pierrepont Finch from nowhere to family and fortune, aided by a get-rich-quick book plus a bravely installed deus ex machina. This time around, one Pope Brock gives life to Finch, and he does so with a modicum of class. Brighter lights, on the other hand, shine to every side, not the least of which is Timothy Hall as J. B. Biggley, the boss of World-Wide Wickets where Finch is employed. Hall handles a considerably larger portion of the show's laughs than did Rudy Vallee in the B'way original...
Choose Your Target. For his would-be successful businessman, young Pierrepont Finch, Mead first advises: choose the right company, "big enough so that nobody knows exactly what anyone else is doing." If he has a special knack, Mead adds, "Forget it . . . Be an 'all-around' man of no special ability and you will rise...
...hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...