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Something Wild, as Hal Scott says in his opening declamation, is about decadence. Scott and his HDC'ers stay well within this theme--no difficult feat with Tennessee Williams--yet accomplished acting makes these three short plays represent more than decadence: each becomes, with skillful handling, an escape into freedom...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Something Wild | 4/12/1956 | See Source »

Divorced. Hal Peary, 46, jowly radio comic and the original giggling star of The Great Gilder sleeve; by Gloria Holiday, 29, onetime radio and TV performer; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Evangelist Billy Graham and M.C. Hal March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...Northwestern University's mammoth McGaw Fieldhouse last week, 11,000 fans got a lively demonstration of the difference between the simple scoring of points and the winning of basketball games. In one round, Temple University's Hal "King" Lear set a single game record of 48 points, but in the end his team was able to place only third in the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament. In the big game, San Francisco's incomparable Bill Russell, while lazily turning in 26 points against Iowa, spent most of his time dancing in the air like a joyous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Not Muscle, Just Russell | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Hal Ulen would have told all inquirers what he told anyone else who asked: Yale had a roster of 61 swimmers; Harvard had 26. One third of Yale's swimmers were rated All-American or some equivalent as scholastic competitors; Harvard's roster contains four such men. When a team starts with such an advantage--almost as many proven All-Americans as the opposition has total squad members--that team has a tremendous edge merely in depth, no matter how great a coach Ulen is or how amazingly his swimmers develop...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Publicity, Ignorance & Sports Reporting | 3/14/1956 | See Source »

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