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...more technical experience. Liebman's 80-man staff spreads over five floors of a Manhattan building. A $250,000 musical library fills a room nearly as large as his original office. Twelve arrangers, orchestraters and copyists turn out the scores for one week's show. Its half-dozen sponsors pay $150,000 a week to put the show on the air. Last month Liebman built the interior of a submarine at a cost of $2,000, then used the set for only 72 minutes in a Sid Caesar sketch...
...first concerts showed a mature wit, a flair for character dancing, and a feel for American material (forty-niners, chorines, Civil War vaudevillians). The critics clapped, but the going was hard. For the next half-dozen years, Agnes lived on a small allowance from her father, eked out with an occasional bond from her mother's badly depressed stack of securities. "Good heavens, baby," gasped Uncle Cecil in the innocence of his millions, "are you in this for your health...
...more strength through graduation than it has gained from last year's freshmen, but the Tech rivals, with one or two exceptions, border on the futile. Gordon Smith's M.I.T. team opened at Brown last Saturday and was drowned by the fairly strong Bruins, 49 to 26, with a half-dozen Harvard swimmers watching from the stands. Tech is sadly lacking in depth, and has only a few performers who can be classified as good...
Harvard came out of football practice last spring with a depth chart of sixteen lettermen, five other former varsity replacements, nine promising freshmen, and a half-dozen former jayvees. The line, and particularly defensive play, was woakened by graduation. The backfield is lighter and faster than a year ago, with promising sophomores Dick Clasby (behind Captain Carroll Lowenstein at tailback) and John Tulenko adding a little badly-needed speed...
...psychological difficulties that beset the characters in E. B. White's New Yorker fantasy seemed less remote than ever last week. In Space Medicine (University of Illinois; $3), a half-dozen assorted Army and Air Force scientists published their theories on what they consider the principal unsolved problem of manned rocket flight: the limits of human endurance...