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...Rittenburg of Harvard, MacAllister Booth of Cornell, and Don McAulliffe of Navy all may break the meet record of 14.4 for the 120 high hurdles. McAuliffe, the favorite, has already run 14.3 for the distance. Booth should win the 220 low hurdles...
...revolver-toting stranger was not John Wilkes Booth, but a look-alike named Thomas Mines. Like Booth, he had a price on his head, but the resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon...
...days after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a customer in a Detroit sa loon pointed at a slender, mustached young stranger and shouted: "That's John Wilkes Booth!" The stranger promptly drew a revolver, clouted the first man at hand and drove his boot into the belly of another. Then he backed out the door and dashed to the ferry. By putting his revolver to the ferry captain's head, he persuaded him to get started at once. Once on the Canadian side, he apologized for the "inconvenience," gave the captain $5 and walked...
...format for reviewing musicals this season has become sadly routine. The critics regularly begin by sighing that Shirley Booth (or Alfred Drake, or Gwen Verdon, or Jeanmaire) is delightful but that the show's book (or music, or lyrics, or both) is far below par. In The Pajama Game, the balance is finally restored: the excellent cast must compete with the script and score for the evening's honors. As a result, the intermission in The Pajama Game is an unpardonable intrusion and the final curtain falls hours too soon. It is the most consistently entertaining musical in several years...
...when Mae Barnes lets go with Happy Habit, or sparks the second act with Hang Up, it is all very fine. Arthur Schwartz's score is pleasant; there are some lively Tamiris dances and attractive Mielziner sets. The show needs more boardwalk and less book, but Shirley Booth makes amends, on the whole, for Shakespeare...