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Before fall brings to Broadway the fresh offerings of a new season, the tried and true veterans sing their September Song, hoping by virtue, popularity or sheer ambiance to win a place in the new theatrical year. Top dramatic playbilling goes to The Night of the Iguana and A Man...
"The auld mug," Sir Thomas Lipton lovingly called it, and the merry Glasgow tea baron tried five times to win it with his majestic Shamrocks, only to fail and die, finally disheartened ("I willna challenge again. I canna win"), in 1931.
There is no pleasanter time to go Broadway show-shopping than the summer. The productions are seasoned, the fare is varied, and tickets to most attractions are enticingly easy to get. Top dramatic playbilling goes to The Night of the Iguana and A Man for All Seasons. Iguana is Tennessee...
Exports: Coffee. Per capita income: $35-50. U.S. aid: $7,500,000. Both countries are heavily overpopulated, heavily dependent on foreign aid. Rwanda looks to neighboring Uganda for trade outlet. Rwanda is republic with moderate austerity regime. Burundi is monarchy with moderate regime under merry Mwami (King) Mwambutsa IV.
So wrote Grantland Rice in 1951, when Promoter Bill Veeck bought the hapless St. Louis Browns, a team that had crept out of the American League's second division only eleven times in 47 years. "Many critics were surprised to know the Browns could be bought," added John Lardner...