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...Still boasting N.E.S.R. (not even standing room) business after packing the house for every performance since opening night 2½ years ago, My Fair Lady passed its 143rd week (1,140 performances) on Broadway to set a new sellout record for long-run shows. Oklahoma!, the former champ, missed out on some standees in its 143rd week; South Pacific had a few square feet of space in the rear of the theater after its 130th week. By year's end Lady's producers expect their books to show $10 million of gross business, a round million more than...
When Chuck Wood Jr., 17, first caught sight of the Aberdeen-Angus calf on his father's Iowa farm 14 months ago, his practiced eye told him it had the build of a potential champ. He exclaimed "Holy cow!" The calf, duly named Holy Cow, was given to Wood to care for. Last week, Holy Cow, grown to a 925-lb. steer, won the grand championship in the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. Wood collected $1,010 in prize money, plus $23,125 from Restaurant Owner Howard Johnson Jr. who bought the steer at auction and will...
Golf pros may blow easy putts, a tennis champ double faults, and it is only reasonable to expect on occasion a painter will turn out a turkey, even as great a painter as Rembrandt. But with all due allowances for human frailty, Rembrandt's early St. Bartholomew has long made Rembrandt scholars uneasy. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum labeled the painting "attributed to Rembrandt" when it was received as a bequest, later returned it to the donor's estate. This week the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum unveiled a new acquisition that unmasks the mystery: a new version...
...fast-moving picture of a man essentially doing what he is supposed to do, under the Constitution, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives: representing the people of his district and, as a byproduct of that, trying to get himself re-elected." So wrote TIME Associate Editor Champ Clark early this month to TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, as he outlined the reporting requirements for this week's cover story on Michigan Congressman Charles Chamberlain. Writer Clark had a rare and unique understanding of what he was looking for. The first Champ Clark, the grandfather...
...another. It is my turn. To come in second behind an Ascari or a Fangio is still a triumph, but to come in second behind an unknown beginner because his young reflexes are quicker or his inexperience pushes him to take unnecessary risks can be tough for an aging champ. It will not happen to me. I will never go near a race track again, not even as a spectator...