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...eyed half-breed (Susan Kohner) through the three tasteless hours and 14 minutes (with intermission), only to lose her in the end. "Some day I'll find you," he trills after her. And towering woodenly over all the power struggles and polyglot types is big Bass-Baritone Howard Keel, who plays "two-fisted and profane" Simon Peter as if he had never left Carousel...
...chasing his own split personality. In Comfort, the happily married Chick found himself unaccountably in bed with an art-loving Mrs. Thicknesse; in Tents, the still happily married Chick all but fathers a child by an art-loving bohemianette named Sweetie Appleyard. Everyone gets back on an even keel just in time to sail into De Vries's moral harbor: "The conformity we often glibly equate with mediocrity isn't something free spirits 'transcend' as much as something they're not quite...
...March 4 Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The engaging musical variety show bubbles on, this time with Soprano Eileen Farrell, Violinist Isaac Stern, the Joe Bushkin Quartet, Ann Blyth and Howard Keel...
Inverted Ship. Eero Saarinen's hockey stadium at Yale cost nearly twice the original budget of $750,000 and is worth every nickel. It stands like an inverted Viking ship with a concrete arch for its keel. The vast ceiling of weathered planks sags slightly, tent fashion, from the central spine. From outside, the stadium looks as strange as a beached sea tortoise. Inside, its wide-open spaciousness, wintry light, and effect of weightlessness are exhilarating. The nation's foremost young architect, who has created such modern wonders as the General Motors Technical Center (TIME, July...
...this basic design Stephens added the lightest equipment money could buy, e.g., an extruded aluminum mast, was thereby able to put the boat's weight where it would do the most good: a 20-ton keel to keep Columbia from heeling excessively under a stiff wind. So carefully did Precisionist Stephens figure his boat's total weight that he even weighed the paper drinking cups and the Tollhouse cookies that went aboard. He added sails for every kind of weather-four mainsails, twelve jibs, eight spinnakers. When he was done, the Columbia's syndicate, headed by Financier...