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Ernest in Love. Lee Pockriss' engaging music grafts smoothly onto Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, in an adaptation that is careful not to shatter the original's cut-glass dialogue...
...altitude rocket. Now the party line, as told to Gorky Park visitors, is that the rocket scored a near miss, that the damaged plane began to "disintegrate" as it fell. But in revising the original lie. the Russians bumbled into another one. To explain why the crash did not shatter the plane into small fragments, they said that the U-2 was largely built of unusually lightweight metal (i.e., titanium), and therefore did not fall so very hard. Fact: the U2's frame was not built of titanium, but of ordinary aircraft-grade Duralumin...
...Love. The newest of off-Broadway musicals is Anne Croswell's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, mounted with sets and costumes so painstakingly assembled that they seem to have been done for a Fifth Avenue window. Adapter Croswell was careful not to shatter the original's cut-glass dialogue. Shuffling identities and romantically mocking romance, Wilde's kaleidoscopic plot is intact as well, from the duplicity of the fellow who has a mythical sick friend called Bunbury and uses him as a shield against dull social obligations to the plight...
...Cincinnati, went to Florida after graduation in 1924 to cash in on the Florida land boom. He and a partner bought two lots for $7,000, pyramided their investment into a tidy fortune in a few years - then lost it all when the bubble burst. But that did not shatter Wolfson's love affair with building. He went to New York, got work as assistant timekeeper on a construction job, steadily worked his way up in the building business until he became an executive in a Manhattan construction firm. In 1936 he and a partner (who died...
...Magnificently muscled (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.), Brown has a sprinter's speed, strength enough to carry along a brace of tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom of the Western Conference, can offer Halfback Ollie Matson, 29, whose stride is rated the most beautiful in football, a smooth flow of power that whisks him through the frantic...