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...total U.S. newspaper circulation. Of the top 32 papers in circulation, only six were omitted; and of these six, five were in chains already represented. The papers represented 15 of the 17 largest metropolitan areas, and included seven chains and five of the nation's 65 tabloids. Fourteen were evening papers, of which 11 editorially endorsed Eisenhower and three backed Stevenson; 18 were morning papers, all pro-Eisenhower...
...Steve Allen, sometime author (FOURTEEN FOR TONIGHT), was merely trying to enliven an Authors' League of America dinner, but he planted the germ seed of a new lazy man's parlor game when he introduced Allen's Scrambled Book List. Some samples...
Like a somewhat expanded "Annals of Crime" in the New Yorker magazine, They Hanged My Saintly Billy explores in great detail the circumstances surrounding a spectacular criminal career. Mr. Graves has chosen the story of Dr. William Palmer, who was accused of doing in fourteen people, the majority by poison, and who was publicly hanged in 1856 after being convicted of poisoning John Parsons Cook, a fellow aficionado of horse-racing...
...thirty-two straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
...forty-five works were presented by fourteen different groups, several of which were new this year. Six of the seven Houses had active theatre groups (only Kirkland, which gave two operas last year, remained silent this year). The only sizable lacuna in the season was the drama that the Harvard Classical Players traditionally have given each spring in Latin or Greek...