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Soft Shoe & Music Lessons. By song's end, River City knows that it has trouble all right, and the audience knows that Bob Preston is the hottest performer on Broadway. Gliding tirelessly through scene after scene, he sings in an unpretentious, mellow baritone, turns Seventy-Six Trombones into as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

Such a preoccupation with form stemmed from Harvard's belief in education as a discipline of the mind--a pencil-sharpener supplying precision to the basic materials.

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Cambridge Scene | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

The poetry of the two camps thus vacillates between the precision of text book exercises and the protest on lavatory walls. In taking great pains to be original, both brands of poetry have degenerated into glittering, fatuous babble.

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Big Little Magazines: Post-War Inflation in the Avant-Garde | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

As in the past, some kind of free entertainment was presented on a specially built stage every evening of the Festival. The celebrated dancers Andre Eglevsky and Mia Slavenska, with the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet, gave four performances. The Joffrey Ballet, consisting of eight young dancers, is a good company...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Boston Arts Festival Called General Success | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Radar & Radio. The new airways-modernization plan envisions a network of aerial highways controlled by 100 huge radar scanners much like those at military DEW line stations. Forty such long-range (up to 200 miles) sets are scheduled to be in operation by July 1959, yet only 27 have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Beware: Jet Crossing | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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