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The predecessor to "Sing Muse" was a musical revue "Voulez-Vous," which played at the Pi Eta Theater in Cambridge in 1960. Despite its short run, "Sing Muse" has brought Segal several offers from Broadway producers for his next play, a musical comedy. After completing work next winter on doctoral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Sing Muse' Gains Mixed Reviews; Segal to Write Broadway Musical | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

To Lose a Fortune. Senefelder gave up playwriting to devote himself to his invention. The King of Bavaria gave him a patent, but Senefelder decided to go after greater profits in London. There, unhappily, he tried for a ?3.000 prize donated by George III for a design for a dirigible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sorcery of the Stone | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

During 1961, Kennedy suffered some major setbacks, including one, in Cuba, that might have ruined some Presidents.* Yet, his popularity has remained consistently high, seemingly unaffected by his vicissitudes. In the latest Gallup poll, 78% of the American people said that they approved of the way he is doing his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: John F. Kennedy, A Way with the People | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

At 57, Dick Powell is about ready to retire as an actor altogether to devote himself to being a TV executive. Says he: "It's the vanity of the old ham. I look at myself in a TV Guide picture and say, 'Oh, those hog jowls.' I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: J. Pierpont Powell | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

"Discipline Is Essential." The man who has lately done most to demilitarize Culver is its sixth superintendent, retired Air Force Major General Delmar T. Spivey, 56, a West Pointer ('28), World War II bomber pilot, and onetime head of the Air University's War College. Shocked at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Molding Men | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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