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...Summer Long (adapted by Robert Anderson from a novel by Donald Wetzel) tells, on the surface, at least, a very different story from Playwright Anderson's Tea and Sympathy (the longest-run dramatic play currently on Broadway). It chronicles a summer in a Midwestern household which proves a particularly disturbing summer for the family's twelve-year-old son. Young Willie at times achieves a new awareness of some of the facts (and fictions) of life, and at other times has awareness thrust upon...
...singing alternated between hummable melodies and tricky modernities. Outstanding performer: twelve-year-old David Hemmings, who won cheers in what is probably the longest role ever written for a boy soprano. The score as a whole (written for a small, 13-piece orchestra) skillfully skirted the fringes of the action, ranging from moments of movie-score drama to Peter and the Wolf simplicity, including a lilting harp passage to accompany the children and wailing sirens for the ghosts...
Sobbed Verdict. One morning last week, in the social hall of ex-Governor Lacson's own office building in Bacolod, the longest trial in the history of the province came to an end. As 2,000 Negrenses jammed the corridors, Judge Eduardo Enriquez rendered his verdict (there is no jury system in the Philippines). He traced Lacson's rise to power, his private army, his "perfect and coordinated" system of political murder. Then the judge faltered. He recalled that he himself and Lacson had been college classmates: they had been "more than friends-like brothers." The judge began...
Palmer had been making rough work of it, spraying shots all over the tough, tree-dotted course at the Country Club of Detroit. He had to go through a tiring 39-hole match, longest semifinal in the tournament's records, to top Cleveland's Ed Meister, onetime Yale golf captain. In the finals, however, Palmer settled down. He shot the first four holes in par. But it was a discouraging performance. Sweeny's deft and delicate putter earned him three birdies and sent him three-up. Still, it was Sweeny himself who gave Palmer hope...
...Newport, R.I., Intercollegiate Tennis Champion Hamilton Richardson, 20, sixth ranking player in the U.S., fought through a four-hour final, longest of the grass-court season, outlasted Pasadena's Straight Clark, 29, for the Newport invitation title, 6-3, 9-7, 12-14, 6-8, 10-8. Shot through with upsets, the tournament saw such top-seeded players as the U.S.'s Vic Seixas, Australia's Wimbledon Finalist Kenneth Rosewall and his Davis Cup teammate, Lewis Hoad, all beaten badly in early rounds...