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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter mile away at the Globe Theatre, where an audience had begun mumbling and grumbling while the curtain was being held for the Swedes' arrival. Dashing for a cab. the royal couple were quickly embroiled in a horrendous Piccadilly Circus traffic snarl, including fire engines, but they got to the Globe only 15 minutes late. The King smiled fleetingly when the Queen said that the Haymarket had been her error. The Haymarket, which had so briefly and unknowingly enjoyed the pleasure of His Majesty's company, was playing Samuel Taylor's The Pleasure of His Company...
...cast was Walter Slezak, making his Met debut as the pig farmer, Szupán. The son of famed Tenor Leo Slezak, 57-year-old Actor Slezak had wanted to stand on the stage of the Met for as long as he could remember, was delighted when he got his father's old dressing room...
...companies were satisfied with Clay's code. When they paid him, they wanted to hear their records played. But Clay did not always oblige. Chicago's Chess and Checker record companies, Clay claims, got so mad at him one year that they did not even send him a Christmas card. "That really bugged me," he recalls. "So the man says, 'Didn't you get the silver plate for Christmas?' I said no. When he gets back to Chicago, he phones me and says, 'Tommy, baby'-when they say 'baby,' look...
...offense, or even defense; one in a century." Rated side by side with Cannon: Army's Bob Anderson, 21 (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.). Says one scout: "If Anderson were eligible to play, he'd be a No. 1 draft choice. But he's got that three-year obligation to Uncle...
...year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor was in business. After one newspaper ad, "we were inundated with replies, and the telephone didn't stop ringing for weeks." For its 100 places, the college got 3,000 inquiries, 1,400 applicants...