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...assignment is Jazz Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter). In the final, frenzied weeks before first night on Broadway, Kay must grind out not only the orchestrations for songs and dances, but the "bridges" between numbers, the entr'actes, and finally the overture, a chore Kay and associates sometimes finish scant hours before cur tain time. The job pays a top arranger anywhere from $10,000 to $16,000 a show...
Knowing when he was licked, Poulson last week conceded a scant three hours after the polls closed. Yorty's triumph changed a lot of California political equations. As mayor of Los Angeles, Sam Yorty's influence would have to be reckoned with. But how would he use that in fluence? Would he support Richard Nixon if Nixon were to run for Governor next year against Pat Brown? Or might he try to unseat Brown himself? Nobody knew, least of all Yorty. But one thing is certain: in one way or another. Mayor Sam Yorty will...
...varsity, using the same lineup that lost to Navy last week, sprinted home a scant deck length ahead of the Engineers after leading by half a length with three-quarters of a mile remaining. The Crimson covered the Henley distance in 6:57.4 despite a troublesome cross-wind...
...swimming pool that he shares with youngsters once a week, hiring a lifeguard to watch over them. He likes to watch himself on one of his six TV sets, greets his twice-weekly taped appearance with "There's the monster." After a scant breakfast. Moran drives to his office in his four-door hardtop Ford Galaxie. riffles through the mail on his 12-ft. desk, then begins his daily tour of his auto empire. He pops into the new-car showroom, opening new-car doors to make sure the interior is clean, checks to see how sales are going...
Baptists for Kennedy. If U.S. Catholics had legal precedent for their stand, they got scant support from Protestants and Jews with parochial schools of their own. Both the National Council of Churches and the American Jewish Congress have gone on record in support of Kennedy's stand. So last week did the President's wary old campaign enemy, Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and a spokesman for the nation's Baptists, many of whom have traditionally feared the idea of a Catholic for President. "Baptists in the United States," said Executive...