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...small, intimate stage becomes a handicap here. Every facial expression and every smudge of greasepaint is detectable. Farce, therefore, is perhaps too hectic a medium for such an intimate stage. The closeness of exaggerated gestures and the raucousness of the comedy become annoying, especially in this amateur production...
...Whitney's Counterpoint (114 Ibs.), the $24,950 Peter Pan Handicap, over Battlefield (123 Ibs.) and six other three-year-old nominees for this week's Belmont Stakes, setting a track record (1:47-4/5) for the mile-and-one-eighth; at New York...
...seem more like a Pandora's box; its story grows as cluttered as a playroom on Christmas night; and a show that should strive for lightness seems to be selling itself by weight. Much of Sammy Fain's music has genuine bounce and swing. But under the handicap of its surroundings, it often suggests the playroom with the radio going. A so-so cast includes Singer Yma Sumac, whose voice spans four octaves. It is Bil & Cora Baird's puppets that are much the gayest, most stylish, least wooden things in the show...
...James Cox Brady's Casemate, the $36,-850 Metropolitan Handicap, over Piet (by half a length); at New York. ¶Manhattan College, a double (440-yds. and 880-yds.), in the Coliseum Relays; at Los Angeles. Seton Hall's Andy Stanfield also doubled (100-yd. dash and 220-yd. low hurdles), and the Illinois Athletic Club's Rev. Bob Richards pole-vaulted 15 ft. (for the ninth time). ¶The University of Delaware's lacrosse team, over Western Maryland, 17-2, as Delaware's Don Swan scored eleven goals to set a national scoring record...
...Brant Rentschler, boss of Pratt & Whitney and its parent United Aircraft Corp., thinks the J57 has more pizzazz than any other engine. Says he flatly: "It is more powerful than any jet engine ever flown." Moreover, he thinks the J57 has gone a long way to overcome a great handicap of jets, their enormous fuel consumption. United's engineers say that it uses less fuel than anybody else has even promised for an engine of its size...