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Five years, four Elizas and three Higginses ago.* My Fair Lady opened in New York. This week the show passed Oklahoma's record of 2,212 performances to become the longest run musical in Broadway history. It is still remarkably crisp, thanks to production assistants, who appear regularly in the audience, advise cast and crew when the show lags. Director Moss Hart himself rehearses every major cast change, and Authors Lerner and Loewe check in occasionally. Lady has, to date, taken in some $50.2 million -$18 million on Broadway, $15.7 million from the traveling national company. $16.5 million from...
...Mediterranean isn't the English Channel and Corsica isn't Normandy, but Darryl Zanuck has been making sequences for The Longest Day, his re-creation of Dday, near a beige and white Corsican fishing village. Zanuck needed the U.S. Navy, and the only fleet the Pentagon had available for him was the Sixth. which is supposed to stay in the Mediterranean. Undaunted, Zanuck's special-effects technicians smoked out the high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local...
...Rome, the Hearst retinue claimed a record after spending 75 minutes with Italian Premier Fanfani ("the longest interview he has ever accorded"). In Bonn, West German Chancellor Adenauer made the sententious observation that "we could live side by side with Communism, if they would behave as does the West...
...rearing tank. A milk formula is slipped in through a sterile lock. Already inside are sterile eye droppers with rubber nipples. Every hour, 24 hours a day, the young animals must be fed by hand, always by the tedious process of working through a rubber gauntlet. Monkeys, with the longest "nursing" time, are the costliest animals to raise. Pigs are better: born with their eyes open, they are not a feeding problem, and when only six weeks old they are the right size for experimental surgery which may later be adapted to man. Small animals such as rats, mice...
After 23 years, one of the longest terms ever run up by a metropolitan U.S. mayor, Atlanta's William B. Hartsfield, 71, announced his impending retirement. Leaving behind a smoothly-operating, patronage-free bureaucracy, Democrat Hartsfield will probably be longest remembered for his notable progress in the field of civil rights. He added the first Negroes to the police force in 1948, brought the 1951 N.A.A.C.P. convention to Atlanta (addressed one session personally, using the almost-unheard-of salutation: "Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen . . ."), desegregated the city's golf courses in 1956, recently ended taxicab segregation. Last week...