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...trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around smacking wet lips...
Dumb Waiter, Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words...
...welcomed U.S. Steel's move as a justification for raising their own prices. Judson Sayre, head of Borg-Warner's Norge Division, said that "the appliance industry would be justified in increasing prices up to 5%." In similar vein, makers of screws and ships, prefab buildings and Pullman cars also mapped raises...
...directors of the M.T.A. agreed Tuesday to buy the cars for $10,097,000 from the Pullman-Standard Company of Chicago...
...talk last night, sponsored by the Poets' Theatre, Miss McCarthy largely avoided the acidulous sting of her satiric fiction. She was not the cruelly self-conscious McCarthy of The Company She Keeps (1942), with its heroine's interminable self-dissection and motive-mongering after making love in a Pullman car with "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt." This famous sketch, which had run previously in the Partisan Review, established her reputation and set the pattern for the heroine of her subsequent novels...