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...JOHN ABBOTT Hayward, Calif...
...prosperous, are moving to Manhattan with equal enthusiasm. Among the more promising: ¶ Fiorello!, with newcomer Tom Bosley an accurate re-creation of New York's "Little Flower" La Guardia, is filled with warmth, schmalz and a lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses...
...weekend brings with it a variety of House Dances. Adams House presents the "Tiger's Tale" with Ken Hamilton's Orchestra and the Historic Jazz Band. Eliot features "The Princeton Triangle Revue Show," with Jeff Carleton's Orchestra. Kirkland's "Tiger Rag" has Princeton's Own Minstrels, the Joe Abbott Quintet, and asorted folk singers...
Stylized Violence. Though these five Eyes have latched onto the classiest clientele scores of lesser peepers operate on IV. Hollywood sound stages, dominated until a few years ago by all sorts of B movies from gangster yarns to Abbott-and-Costello comedies, now harbor an endless succession of Private Eye productions (they are B pictures too, but nobody calls them that). Hollywood prop men account for more blank cartridges in a week than the L.A. police force can match with live bulletsin the line of duty in a year Everyone is getting into the act. At Warners, where TV production...
Conant was nearing a Nobel Prize for his research on chlorophyll. He never got it. In 1933 Harvard plucked him out of the lab and elected him president (at 40) to succeed aging Abbott Lawrence Lowell (Cambridge was full of old professors, and its reputation had sagged). By World War II, Conant had hired so many outstanding new professors and administrators that he was able to spend up to 75% of his time away from Harvard, organizing atomic scientists for the supersecret Manhattan Project...