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Producers Theatre, Inc. is a far cry from the usual one-shot partnership of Broadway show backers. It is a longterm, well-knit marriage of business acumen and theatrical talent. Its sparkplug is dynamic Real-Estate Tycoon Roger L. Stevens, who engineered the 1951 purchase of the Empire State Building and its sale last month...
...Winston Churchill solemnly told the House of Commons [last month] that "tremendous changes have taken place in the whole strategic position in the world which make the thoughts which were well founded and well knit together a year ago utterly obsolete." What the great old man was referring to here is the fact that the hydrogen bomb has turned out to be an even more hideous and destructive weapon than was planned and expected. It has now been discovered that in certain special cases the heat and blast may be no more than the percussion cap of a much larger...
...degree concealed in public speech how much I regretted the course of events in Egypt. But I had not held my mind closed to the tremendous changes that have taken place in the whole strategic position in the world, which makes the thoughts which were well founded and well knit together a year ago utterly obsolete . . . Merely to try to imagine in outline the first few weeks of a war under conditions about which we did not know when this session commenced . . . would, I am sure, convince honorable gentlemen of the obsolescence of the base . . ." In other words, what Winston...
...untrue rumor that Cooper had heart trouble has persisted. He smokes a rare cigarette, drinks an occasional bourbon highball, and dresses soberly. He has a horror of loud ties, and when he is tempted to substitute one with a touch of color for his favorite dark blue knit, he sometimes appeals to Macomber to tell him whether the new tie is too loud. Assured that it is not, Cooper is still likely to whip the blue tie out of his pocket and change...
...Liberace phenomenon resembles earlier crazes over Frank Sinatra and Johnnie Ray. But Liberace fans are more likely to belong to the two-way stretch than to the bobby-sox crowd. Women mob him wherever he goes. They bake cakes for him. They knit for him (one fan contributed a pair of socks embroidered with small pianos). Last year they sent him 27,000 valentines. One grandmother and her daughter have been following him for months from town to town. Says his brother George, who conducts the background music on his show: "He's got musical hypnosis." Says his manager...