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...William Tyrone Guthrie, L.H.D., artistic director of the Minnesota Theater Company at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. Technical autocracy is a threat against which his theater has offered a bright promise that the ennobling power of mature, professional theater may prove a boon for men everywhere in the trying decades ahead...
...Commodore Hotel-baseball's first "free agent" draft, which, in effect, stripped away the bargaining rights of the country's young hopefuls and put them on the block like so many sides of beef. To hear some of the clubs talk, it was the greatest boon to baseball since Happy Chandler returned to politics. "I've been pushing for this thing for 20 years," crowed the Cleveland Indians' vice president, Gabe Paul...
Many economists disagree about the timing of the excise-tax cut, some feeling that the reductions would be more valuable next year when the economy may need a strong push. For businessmen and consumers, nonetheless, the cut was a boon that will surely help out just when there are some faint signs of a downturn in consumer interest. The Ways and Means Committee even threw in a bit of extra, early seasonal cheer: it advanced repeal of the 10% tax on cabarets and theater tickets from next Jan. 1 to noon on New Year...
First annual regattas have been a boon to Harvard sailors this spring. Just three weeks ago at Annapolis a Harvard came from behind to win the first annual Kennedy Memorial Regatta...
Rerun season, a bane to the regular viewer but a boon to the occasional one, is in full flower on the networks. Most of the weekly series now contract for only 26 new episodes a year, which leaves the other six months to be filled with repeats of segments shown earlier in the season or from years past. It's a happy time for those who love The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and baseball with equal fervor, less so for those who suspect that the episode they missed last fall wasn't worth watching in the first place...