Word: hals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least tractable businesses: the Broadway theater. A combination businessman-showman, he has produced or co-produced ten hit musicals- including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello! and Fiddler On The Roof -that have earned $5,300,000 and brought him a personal worth of just over $1,000,000. Hal Prince has precisely the right balance of creativity, charm and salesmanship that makes a successful producer. "It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class," he says. "If you're not, then you learn to hustle-and that's good...
...Princeton transfers who said they felt "uncomfortable" over the "incredible extremism on all sides" in California. CONSCIENCE, which is organizing a nationwide "lecture-in" on Nov. 22, argues that pro tests only "discourage the Viet Cong from seeking a peaceful settlement in Viet Nam." Last week CONSCIENCE Chairman Hal Scott invaded the Vietniks' favorite stage, the Sproul Hall steps at the University of California's Berkeley campus, drew 500 listeners. A nearby rally to raise medical supplies for the North Vietnamese mustered only 100 spectators, mostly newsmen...
Harry Byrd's uncle, Congressman Hal Flood, was one of the Machine's leaders till his death in 1921, and Byrd's father was speaker of the House of Delegates. But Byrd's own cleverness won him the governorship in 1925 at age 38, extraordinarily young for Virginia. With intelligence and attention to detail, he soon gained control of the already thirty-year-old Machine...
...have produced quite so exotic a cast of supporters and swingers. Among the Lindsay helpers were Actor Henry Fonda, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres (a Puerto Rican), Singers Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli and Ethel Merman, Authors Norman Mailer and Paddy Chayefsky, Broadway Producers George Abbott and Hal Prince, ex-Baseball Star Jackie Robinson and Boxer Suear Ray Robin son, Comedienne Phyllis Diller and CORE Leader James Farmer...
...Spanish--or is it Mexican? There are Spanish guitars; Petruchio and even Kate herself puff long cigars. Why all this Hispanicism for a work that makes so many specific references to Padua, Pisa. Florence, Mantua, Rome, Verina and Venice? Even the virtue of consistency is absent, however--especially in Hal George's costumes, which range in style all the way from the Renaissance to Dickens...