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...Captain. Though Trippe is surrounded by crack engineers, and financial and diplomatic experts, he runs Pan Am as a one-man show-and no one ever forgets it. His tight-fisted rule has been shaken more than once, but never broken...
...triumph. With his cinemactress wife, Vivien Leigh, he is starring in a repertory of three plays-two of them Olivier-produced- which are sold out through March. In any one week, ticket holders can see Sir Laurence and his lady in Richard III (produced by John Burrell, who has also been sacked), The School for Scandal, and a modern-dress Antigone, in which Olivier plays a one-man Greek chorus in a dinner jacket...
...turned out, things in Nashua were not as bad as people had feared. Working together, the union, a citizens' committee and Little had managed to save 1,200 of the jobs. But that did not quiet Tobey. As a one-man senatorial committee, he went after Little where he looked the most vulnerable. He attacked the bewildering hodgepodge of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts which hold title to most of the property in Little's $60-million textile empire...
Despite the spectacular swimming of Pennsylvania's one-man team, captain Don deForrest, Harvard's once-defeated swimming squad gained a 42 to 33 victory at the City of Brotherly Love last night. DeForrest won the 100-yd freestyle and sparked Penn victories in the medley and freestyle relays...
Seldom, either, has there been such monotony of murder. The one-man reign of terror that ends with Richard's death on Bosworth Field not only demotes the play from tragedy to melodrama; it eventually gives horror the colorlessness of habit. Toward the end, Shakespeare's Richard III is very nearly as bad as Shakespeare's Richard...