Word: broadway
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Located in New York between 114th and 124th Streets off Broadway, the University bears a peculiar relationship to that city. As the founders insisted 200 years ago, a city needs a university. Columbia was built up with responsibility to New York in mind and has become an indispensable asset to the metropolis. It has succeeded in meeting the higher educational needs of New York, especially at the graduate school level, while maintaining its position among the leading scholarly institutions in the country...
...Murrow's I Can Hear It Now album of historic speeches, the prestigious Literary Series, with such authors as Somerset Maugham and William Saroyan reading from their "own works, and album revivals of old musicals (the Pal Joey and Porgy and Bess albums have, in turn, sparked Broadway revivals...
...Murrow interviews Cinemactress Janet Gaynor, and Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Football (Sat. 2:30 p.m., ABC). Wisconsin v. Rice. Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). With Judy Holliday, Steve Allen, Dick Shawn. The Bob Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Rosemary Clooney. The Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Man Who Came to Dinner with Monty Woolley, Merle Oberon, Bert Lahr, Buster Keaton, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Reginald Gardiner...
...Friend (book, music & lyrics by Sandy Wilson) may very well prove the surprise hit on Broadway that it was in London. A gay, witty spoof of musicomedy during the '20s, it manages to hold up all evening by lacing its burlesque 'with nostalgia. It also avoids dangerous pitfalls by sticking to the musicals of the '20s and not going after the mores...
Died. Bert Lytell, 69, for 66 years an actor in the theater, radio, cinema and TV; after an operation; in Manhattan. A matinee idol of silent films (The Lone Wolf, Alias Jimmy Valentine), he moved smoothly from leading man to character roles on Broadway (Lady in the Dark), served as president of Actors' Equity for seven years...