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Although his prolific output has received an impresive circulation in the University--in one play produced last spring by the Harvard Dramatic Club, in two others set to music at Dunster House a couple of weeks ago, in another that was broadcast on WHRB, Kopit has revealed no startling point...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Advocate | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

¶ slash in mortgage interest rates to as low as 4% from as much as 12%, further pleasing working-class tenants but virtually paralyzing new real estate ventures.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The First 100 Days | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Not content with pleasing students as much as it already does, the Dining Halls Department is "exploring the possibility" of serving the same menu in all Houses next year. According to the Department head, the plan will probably be adopted.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Culinary Bureaucracy | 3/12/1959 | See Source »

The average card has a tag match (two-man teams with the members taking turns mauling each other) that eventually degenerates into a crowd-pleasing, pier-six free-for-all. Midgets may be there to jazz up the act. Here and there, where lenient local authorities permit it, women wrestlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Heroes & Villains | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

From the moment Trouper Verdon turns plain Essie into a glittering song-and-dance girl, Redhead stops being deadhead. Her articulate hands, toes and torso are parts of speech and her lines are more pleasing than the script's. Her body is an erotic spoof spelling sex in quotes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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