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...world's zaniest musician, pun-loving, Danish-born Pianist Victor Borge, showed no signs of flagging as he prepared to play his way this week into the second year's run of his one-man Broadway hit show, Comedy in Music. Borge's witty (and programless) keyboard romp has pleasantly parted 230,400 customers from some $775,000 of their money, has outdistanced all long-run records for one-performer Broadway offerings...
...board of trustees of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, voted in May to reprimand an S.M.U. English professor who has been waging on one-man public campaign of anti-semitism for the past several years...
Crapshooter l/c. Boston-bred Fred Richmond got his start in business at Harvard, in the Navy's wartime V12 officer-training program. In his spare time, he ran a one-man tax consultant service and drummed up ads for the Harvard Lampoon. Shipped to the Pacific before finishing Harvard, he came out of the war a radioman third class and crapshooter first class. He graduated from Boston University, then used $1,400 of Navy dice winnings to start an ad-sales office...
...Manhattan last week a one-man Senate investigating committee spaded up some fresh dirt on postwar apartment projects backed by the Federal Housing Administration (TIME, July 26). Called to the stand by Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush was Lawyer Thomas Grace, who was New York State FHA director from...
...could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador Loy Henderson in Teheran) as 10% engineering, 15% negotiation, 75% ministering to emotional fevers. Old hands at the State Department appraise it as the finest one-man job since Dulles negotiated the Japanese peace treaty...