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Cambridge Police Chief John R. King may receive a request from City Manager John B. Atkinson today to initiate a City Council-sponsored drive to expose Cambridge Reds...
...Glaring Lack. What hobbled the season was less a lack of aspiration than (as the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson and others noted) a glaring lack of creativeness. Broadway swam with revivals (Shakespeare, Shaw, Strindberg Peter Pan), with books made into plays (The Member of the Wedding, The Innocents, The Happy Time, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep) with plays and books made into musicals (Regina, Lost in the Stars, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'). Making its chairs out of sofas rather than building them outright, Broadway still scorned the idea that the play...
...Kaiser set up a $200,000 contest. The result was prodigious: some 450,000 people submitted names. Last week Kaiser-Frazer picked the winner. It wasn't easy, since about 100 contestants had submitted the same name. K-F awarded first prize of $10,000 to Mrs. Charles Atkinson of Denver because she had written the best 25-word reason for her choice. The winning name: Henry...
Fabulous Creation. "Happy days are here again," cried the New York Times's scholarly Brooks Atkinson after Carol's Broadway premiére. "Let us call her portrait of the aureate Lee the most fabulous comic creation of this dreary period in history." "Carol Channing," trilled the Herald Tribune's often harsh-voiced Howard Barnes, "serves notice that she has few peers among musical-comedy actresses." Even before these rhadamanthine judgments were pronounced, Carol's out-of-town notices had set the box office of Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater humming with the biggest advance seat...
First Turn. Capot, stung by a slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...