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WESTPORT, CONN. Country Playhouse. Hans Conried plays a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters both the boon and bane of his existence in Herman Shumlin's Spofford, a cut-down version of Peter De Vries' novel, Reuben, Reuben...
...panache, with striking, if exceedingly poor, ideas such as making New York City the 51st state. The most visible result of the campaign was, however, to push Mario Procaccino--a symbol of all the New Politics hates--that much closer to getting the mayorality by talking votes away from Herman Badillo, Procaccino's chief liberal opponent...
...since every concert by every orchestra is a deficit affair, more concerts mean a larger deficit. Los Angeles has expanded its annual schedule from 37 weeks to 46 in the past three years, and the musicians are pushing hard for 52. "Sure, the schedule is murderous," says A.P.M. President Herman Kenin. "But the goal is not 52 weeks but 52 checks. The musician has to pay the mortgage on his house, educate his children and feed his wife all year, not just 40 weeks...
...biggest of the shadow schools is Washington Area Free University, a consortium of 2,000 students who also attend the capital area's formal universities. Courses cover everything from drugs and Herman Hesse's novels to macrobiotic diets and Herbert Marcuse's philosophy. Like free university students elsewhere, W.A.F.U. participants subscribe to 19th century Educator Mark Hopkins' heroic if hoary notion that all that is necessary for education to take place is two people...
Talking Their Language. To put their house in order, the Beatles last February called in Allen Klein, 37, a New York City accountant who manages the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. Klein also controls Cameo-Parkway Records, whose stock was delisted by the American Stock Exchange last year because of "an absence of adequate information" about its business dealings. Klein was indicted in New York federal court for income tax evasion in connection with his holding company, Allen Klein & Co. Two weeks ago, he signed a three-year management contract with the Beatles, cutting himself into...