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...Pajame is most fun when everybody is on stage at once--between the songs there are, after all, an awful lot of crummy lines (the cue for "Small Talk" is that oh-so-memorable line "What's the matter, lover?"). And having come to this, I can now fling praise at Miss Cohen and at Thom Babe, the director. The big production numbers are awesome. Mr. Babe's blocking and Miss Cohen's choreography are smoothly professional, overwhelmingly competent. Their "7 1/2" has the chorus brandishing a forest of picket signs; it effectively fills every square inch of the stage...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The Pajama Game | 3/17/1962 | See Source »

After that came a clerkship at A. & P., a fling at sailing in the West Indies and newspapering in Manhattan (the defunct PM), and World War II service with the Coast Guard in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rich: The Benefactor | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...first stage production company to sell stock to the public, floating 125,000 shares at $3 apiece. Scott is the president of the corporation; Off-Broadway Producer Theodore Mann is vice president. Whereas most Broadway productions are cast, built and rehearsed in New York before a brief trial fling on the road, the Theater of Michigan will cast all of its plays, build its sets, rehearse, and hold tryouts in Detroit, then bring the wrapped package to the west end of the Holland Tunnel and shove it through. "Imagine a prosperous Broadway,"* Scott expands, "supported some day by the Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Heavy Star | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...novas' changing temperature, light and motion. After 30 months he was able to prove that at least seven of them are double stars. The two bodies whirl around each other every few hours, moving up to 165 miles per second, 24 times the speed needed to fling a rocket free of the earth's gravitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waltz with Detonations | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...combined with yesterday's total eclipse of the sun, had led astrologers (note: not astronomers) to predict doom. In India, particularly, a great number of people disrupted their normal business and gathered in, family groups to await the end. Many University students have also reportedly been taking a last fling...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: World Has Not Ended Yet This Morning | 2/5/1962 | See Source »

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