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Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a bookcase on wheels. Instead of vanishing into classrooms, the kids camped in noisy huddles all over one huge room. With teachers hopping from huddle to huddle, the scene sometimes took on the look of a Red Cross disaster station, but it was routine teaching at the free-form grade school in Carson City, Mich...
Before long, Loesser's Frank Music Corp. had the new labor force organized. Admen could buy high-test jingles written by the firm's herd of known and unknown songwriters. Some of the knowns: Adler, Harold Rome (Destry Rides Again), Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie), and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Wildcat). Authorship is not revealed until the tune has been sold. "It's embarrassing," explained the firm's vice president, Stuart Ostrow, "for an important writer to go to bat for Pepsodent and be turned down." Average price, not including sizable royalties...
Rhinoceros. lonesco's lone nonconformist (Eli Wallach) stalwartly resists joining the herd, even when his best friends (notably Zero Mostel) desert...
Above and beyond this varied crew are the "Serious Six" candidates, who for one good reason or another lead the herd...
...contact injuries are the rigors of travel. Any N.B.A. team is apt to find itself playing seven games in as many cities within ten days. As the westernmost team, Los Angeles this season will travel 100,000 miles to play a 79-game schedule. Conspicuous as a herd of giraffes, the N.B.A.'s big men have learned to cope with an alien world of threatening doorframes and ridiculously small chairs. At night they drape their feet over suitcase racks placed at the ends of their Hollywood-style hotel beds. After a game, supper may be a piece of pumpkin...