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...Broadway season is never brighter than on the billboards of September; by May, it may seem like just another of the impossible years. This season, no fewer than 40 new shows are aimed for Broadway. Among the more notable...
...says, "In his 40's a man has done pretty much what he was capable of doing. Most depressing, he knows that he will have to go on doing it with ever-brighter, ever-younger men nipping at his heels." It is precisely that self-imposed psychological impotence that lies behind T. S. Eliot's middle-age "hoo-ha's." The primary affliction of middle-age is the fear of taking a chance, sloughing off old, stultifying patterns and starting something new in the direction of self-fulfillment...
...Harvard scientists have found that the dark areas of Mars rise six to nine miles above the brighter deserts, contradicting the standard theory that Mars is an almost smooth planet...
Professor Alfred must believe that a man's home is his castle. 31 Athens Street is a combination of Classical Greek, Continental Renaissance, American Comfort, and William Alfred. The white walls ("It makes everything much brighter, doesn't it?") are covered with illustrations of Greek figures, portraits of colonial women, a sea-scape, some French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine...
...close of 28¾. If he decides to sell all that, he will be left with less than 1% of the company-and a lot less cash than if he had sold off a few years ago. As A. & P. sales have shrunk slightly under tough competition from brighter chains, its stock has slid from a 70½ high...