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...Force captain stationed in England has demonstrated how even an amateur producer can prosper in the West End. When British pros refused to finance 43-year-old Max Morgan, who wanted to put on an all-Negro musical revue, the New York-born captain found his angels among 65 Air Force men at the 19 U.S. bases in Britain. Fired by the $50,000 the flyers shoveled into it, Jazz Train screeched into London's Piccadilly Theater last week and had critics shouting that it was the best musical since Blackbirds...
...while they talked like bickering schoolboys, the Dodgers played like pros from the first game. Even as they finally lost one last week, they were so hot that the Giants who beat them (5-4) needed a couple of Willie Mays's classiest catches and a couple of Umpire Babe Pinelli's doubtful decisions to cool them...
Subscription TV (Sun. 5:15 p.m., CBS). Debate on the pros and cons of pay-as-you-see television...
...first essay: "The Case for Free Trade." May 25, 1953). It was designed to fill a particular editorial function outside the area of spot news: the need to discuss topics of general business interest, subjects which are on people's minds. The idea is to present the pros and cons, to give the reader a reflective report and the guidance that will stimulate his own thinking...
...sentimental (and thrifty) competitors actually drove their cars to the race. But the quaint tradition that a sports car is a practical vehicle, designed for everyday use, seemed as antiquated as the Stanley Steamer or the solid-rubber tire. Well-heeled pros who turned up for the Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance last week brought their cars by rail or trailer, by plane or ship-any way but under their own power. The 5.2-mile course on Sebring's abandoned airfield was enough to tear the guts out of the finest engine. Mechanics needed every available...