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When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...
Bill Lewis, Bob Schwartzman, and Dick Nye were all unsuccessful in their matches, while teammates Neil Slater-Booth and George Lemann won. In the closest of the five matches, Lemann lost his first two games to Joe Barr. Behind 14-2 in what proved the deciding game of the match, Lemann came back to defeat Barr 17-16, andchalk up one of the Crimson's two wins...
...Hollywood, Tony looks fine. His latest picture: Paramount's The Tin Star. Waiting to be released are three other films he cranked out for Paramount this year-The Matchmaker, with Shirley Booth, Desire Under the Elms, with Sophia Loren, and This Bitter Earth, with Jo Van Fleet. Two earlier Perkins films are still packing them in: Fear Strikes Out, the story of Red Sox Outfielder Jimmy Piersall, and Friendly Persuasion, made with his good friend and sometime mentor, Gary Cooper...
Voters will draw two cards of different colors or shapes. Supporters of Perez Jimenez will drop the affirmative card into the ballot box and leave the booth conspicuously exhibiting the negative card. Leaving the booth without this card in hand will take more nerve than the average citizen is likely to show. It was clear that the ayes would have it, thereby electing Perez Jimenez and his Congress for another five-year term. But just to make sure, the President banned all political meetings, leaflets, emblems, posters, buttons, loudspeakers or speeches...
...Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa., where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device which supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer and impotence...