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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening of the Soviet fair at the New York Coliseum. In the U.S., newspapers showed nine camera-laden U.S. Governors traipsing gaily through Moscow and Leningrad and Kozlov sightseeing around Manhattan with New York's Mayor Robert Wagner. While New Yorkers were jamming into the Coliseum to look over Soviet wares ranging from Sputnik models to calendar-realism paintings, workmen in Moscow's Sokolniki Park were putting last touches on the U.S. exhibition, to be officially opened later this month by Vice President Nixon...
...door, and 2) he was more interested in seeing that Vice President Nixon gets the same kind of reciprocal top-level treatment when he opens the U.S. exposition in Moscow on July 25. For his part, genial Frol Kozlov, as Khrushchev's understudy, was out to get a look at the Soviet Union's chief competitor and potential enemy (his last known trip outside the U.S.S.R.: to Hungary, with Khrushchev, in April 1958), and in the process to make whatever propaganda he could...
Many critics have been quick to look down their pedantic noses at Shakespeare's Merry Wives. They decry its lack of psychologic or philosophic depth; they bemoan its coarse language; they complain that almost none of it is in verse. Indeed the play is prose, but not prosaic. And the critics blame Shakespeare for not producing what he never had the slightest intention of producing. There is evidence that Queen Elizabeth I was so delighted with the character of Falstaff in the two parts of Henry IV that she commanded the writing of a play about Falstaff in love...
...Jolla, Calif., Playhouse: Look Homeward Angel, with Miriam Hopkins...
...Harold Loeb. There were some real people behind most of the characters in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises-Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, his older mistress, etc. In a fascinating backward look, the author (who served as Cohn's model) tells who was really who and how they lived, talked and drank in those nights before the sun rose...