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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A pair of newlyweds clamber five flights to a Manhattan flat to coo, tiff and tousle in a variety of dress and undress. Playwright Neil Simon is a laugh merchant who never runs out of lines...
...number of merchants sued New York City and collected for damage done during the Harlem riots of 1935 and 1943. Under similar state laws, cities in Illinois and New Jersey have been sued for damage caused by strikes as well as riots. Restrictions on the plaintiff are few. A merchant cannot collect if he himself helped to incite the rioters-by illegally giving them liquor, for example. He probably cannot collect for lost business, only for real property damaged or carried away. Beyond that, the law is all on his side...
...rate of 10 million a year. For each of the past three years, total food output has fallen below the 1960 level of 81 million tons, and even in the case of the improved rice crop, deliveries to consumers are off by more than 16%, owing to merchant hoarding and an inefficient marketing system...
...Oregon group does Henry VI, Part I as well as Lear, Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice, and does them all with fluid skill. Rigorously Elizabethan in style, the company offers no intermissions and performs in a simulacrum of 17th century London's Fortune Theater. "This is a stepping-stone between the academic and professional theaters," says Bowmer. "We use Shakespeare because we think he's a damned good theater...
...himself. His success drew other hopefuls into a crowded market and aroused older appliance makers to cut costs and retail prices. Bloom proved as poor at finance as he was spectacular at promotion. Receipts from Rolls's "never-never"-as Britons call installment plans-were passed on to Merchant Sir Isaac Wolfson, who had bankrolled Bloom with a $28 million loan. Spotting trouble, Sir Isaac withdrew his support and sped the downfall...