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...Fired Marker's Die Quietly, My Love, one of the two new plays produced yesterday by the New Theatre Workshop, turned out to be a situation comedy rather lacking in situation. But sprightly direction and inspirited acting more than compensated for the faltering plot, so that the result was a thoroughly enjoyable-and sometimes hilarious-presentation...
...Marker based his play on the unlikely but promising proposition that husband and wife should simultaneously hire assassins to kill each other. Some amusing lines ensue as the two murderers, male and female, meet in a dark apartment, and as Mr. and Mrs. Price subsequently discover their own respective plots. It seemed unfortunate, however, that the author declined to bring all four of his eccentric characters onstage at one time. With a little imagination this could have resulted in a wonderfully riotous scene instead of the slow fizzle with which the play...
...sailors, and teams from the University of Rhode Island, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, and the Coast Guard Academy. Crimson skipper in the "B" division, Addie Closson, had a tough break in the third heat when he was disqualified because his centerboard became fouled in the anchor line of the windward marker. In the "A" division, Fred Hoppin won the seventh heat, but it was not enough to place the Crimson high in the final standings...
Immediately after the testimony of John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, to the Senate Finance and banking Committee yesterday the stock marker broke sharply and almost three billion dollars Ws lost on the market value of the stocks listed on the New York Exchange...
...About a quarter of an hour was required for the shock to travel, deep under the Pacific basin, to the California coast. I waited with little patience . . . At last . . . the luminous point appeared to dance wildly and irregularly. Was it only that the pencil which I held as a marker trembled in my hand? . . . Then the trace appeared on the photographic plate . . . clear and big and unmistakable . . . Mike was a success...