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...Marshal Tito ("the ritziest looking dictator in the world"), Richard Nixon ("a neat line between the wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian ("one of the few millionaires who dress like millionaires...
Group 20 Players (Wellesley): June 23-July 4, Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"; July 7-18, Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"; July 21-August 1, Shaw's "Man and Superman"; August 4-15, Barrie's "Peter Pan"; August 18-29, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and Moliere's "The Follies of Scapin...
...make short work of the sprints--although Cambridge's Dewo Roberts has a 9.8 100 to his credit. The 440 may turn into a battle between two Americans, Harvard captain Albie Gordon and Yale sophomore Jim Stack. The Crimson's Joel Landau is favored in the high hurdles over Rex Van Rossum of Oxford, and either Landau or Yale's Jay Luck should take the lows. The 4 x 110 relay should go to the Americans. Either Blodgett or Yale freshman Oakley Andrews should easily win the pole vault, since Cambridge's Stuart Downhill, the best Englishman, has done only...
...Died. Rex Smith, 58, world-roving, hard-living journalist and author; onetime (1937-41) editor of Newsweek, where he revamped editorial policy, helped push circulation from 190,000 to 450,000; editor of the Chicago Sun (1941-42); Vice President of American Airlines in charge of Public Relations (1946-58); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...that trend is Eli Kazan.... I certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully good plays on that subject"; here he instances Oedipus Rex. But "Oedipus expiates for the sake of his entirectiy," while the heroes of J.B. and Sweet Bird of Youth (the two plays most recently directed by Kazan) are concerned in their expiation only with themselves. "Somehow the connection between strong emotion and human responsibility seems to have been...