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...unstrung hero of the piece is 41-year-old Playwright Arthur Sumner Long, whose Broadway debut has left him slightly shell-shocked from the force of a direct hit. As unassuming as his play, Long, a father of two, admits he was even less prepared for a flop: "I wouldn't have dared to go home to Los Angeles. The children-they give you such a sendoff-you hate to sneak back tarred and feathered." A longtime TV writer, Long joshes about his labor pains with Never Too Late: "Eight weeks to write, six years to retype...
...varsity basketball team's season debut again Amherst Saturday night was, as captain Gene Augustine had predicated, a content in which Harvard could not afford to make many mistakes...
Tonight the varsity makes its 1962 debut at Amherst, and although the Crimson quintet is something of an enigma, it will probably start this season on a more auspicious note than last year...
Sure as the winter solstice, every music season brings to U.S. concert halls a U.S.-born singer who has already made it big in Europe. This season's entry is Mezzo-Soprano Grace Bumbry, 25, who made her Manhattan concert debut last week in Carnegie Hall. Her performance of Duparc songs, Italian songs, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Strauss lieder and Negro spirituals was eloquent exposition of a native talent that has been too long coming home...
Mezzo Bumbry actually made her U.S. recital debut last winter-in Washington. Acting on the enthusiastic advice of friends who had heard the young singer in Europe, Jackie Kennedy invited Bumbry to sing at the White House after a state dinner (TIME. March 2). Daughter of a St. Louis railway clerk, Grace Bumbry became interested in music in a fashion familiar to many American Negroes -singing in a church choir. Scholarships took her to Boston University, Northwestern, and finally to Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West to study with Lotte Lehmann, the great German-born soprano...