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...rival the luxurious ice-yachts that the Russians drove to the Pole last season, but they can be carried in airplanes and therefore can start explorations from any smooth stretch of ice. Another major U.S. effort will be an attempt by the icebreakers Glacier and Staten Island to smash their way to the coast of the Amundsen Sea. Because of dense pack ice, no ship has ever crossed this sea, and the land behind its defenses is as mysterious as any place in the world...
...Program will readily bring dollars in from outside the University. In hundreds of towns across the country sit thousands of men waiting to give millions of dollars: rejected applicants, exiled assistant professors, severed sophomores--all thirsting for revenge. And A Program Against Harvard College ought to be a smash hit in New Haven...
...list of George Abbottt successes stands as a theater legend: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "Wonderful Town," "Call Me Madam," "Where's Charley?" "Once Upon A Mattress," "Damn Yankees," and "Pajama Game" are some recent "smash hits" with his magical polish. Although he gave up acting for writing and directing in 1919, he returned to the stage to co-star with Mary Martin and Helen Hayes in "The Skin Of Our Teeth," which, the critics agreed, testified to his undiminished acting ability. "It was very hot playing to summer audiences in a fur coat," he remembered. "I could have been...
...Michelangeli. But since the war, his health has been poor; he has played less and less, behaves with growing eccentricity. During rare recording sessions, he will sit pondering for hours before placing hands to keys, or walk out to take the speeding air in his car. Or he may smash an offending master disk over his knees, as he did at Naples a few years ago, destroying two weeks' work. On the concert stage he is equally unpredictable, sometimes performing in a sport coat or overcoat before audiences in dinner jackets or tails. He balks at applause...
Died. Vicki (born Hedwig) Baum, 72, a Viennese-born harpist and Berlin magazine editor, author of more than 30 novels, who-following her 1931 bestseller and Broadway smash, Grand Hotel-took up film writing in Hollywood ("where, thank heaven, I failed, and so saved my life") and U.S. citizenship ("I fell in love with the country"), but never again equaled her first success; of leukemia; in Hollywood...