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There were few in the sold-out Stadium of nearly 39,000 who had expected a Harvard victory, and indeed, there were others willing to give away as many as thirty points, so confident were they of a Yale slaughter. And it is only to the credit of the Crimson players that a higher score was averted...
...feels, for the mess of modernistic pottage he lives in, and the inalienable right to Swedish massage. Now his wife (Ida Lupino) is leaving him, his contract is coming up for renewal, and he is beginning to feel like a spiritual gelding-"one of those witless, sold-out guys, sitting around the gin table, swapping phone numbers and the latest dirt...
...Kleine Teehaus was one of the best. After 100 sold-out performances, The Teahouse of the August Moon was still a smash hit in West Berlin, will move next week to a more commodious theater. Berliners, wearily familiar with occupation armies, were delighted with an American play that deliberately spoofed the U.S. Army's postwar occupation of Okinawa (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953). When Sakini, the raffish Okinawan, declares that "democracy is exhausting," German audiences howl. The boffo line for Berliners comes in the scene where Colonel Purdy announces his determination to bring democracy to the islanders...
...last week, at the sold-out concert at Chicago's Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...
...London's underground, officials posted the warning: HARRINGAY FULL. This is standing procedure for cutting down the crowds that head toward sold-out stadiums for cup finals and big football matches. But the multitudes on their way to Harringay Arena in North London last week were not out for fun and games. They were flocking to hear Billy Graham's call to salvation...