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Competitors also gripe because seldom, if ever, does Kiphuth bother to take along all his top performers to a sold-out away meet. Yale now holds most of the national records for 50-yard pools and (by picking on insignificant small-school opponents) most of the 40-yard pool records. Word among swimming schools is that the only way to get the Elis to visit at full strength would be to build a pool with no previous records--say, an egg-shaped one, thirty-seven yards long...
London still waited eagerly for T.S. Eliot's verse play, The Cocktail Party, now in its tenth sold-out week on Broadway. Meanwhile, it was busy doing homage to a meteoric new playwright, who, like Eliot, had turned the trick of making poetic drama a sizzling box-office hit. A year ago, few even in London literary circles had heard of Christopher Fry. Last week the name was marquee magic that packed two theaters with customers of all brow heights. The plays: Fry's Venus Observed, produced, directed and acted by Sir Laurence Olivier...
...months, the Negro-exclusion issue has left the capital without a professional theater (TIME, Aug. 9). Into the library's finely detailed, 270-seat reproduction of a roofless, balcony-ringed Elizabethan playhouse (which had housed many a learned lecture, but never a play), ticket holders crowded for seven sold-out performances of Julius Caesar. Television cameras moved in for an eighth performance...
During the war, many of these books were printed in limited quantities because of the shortage of paper. Therefore most publishers and not bring out now issues of sold-out books. Today the Lamont staff is combing all nearly second hand book stores looking for the rare items...
...marble-columned Rudolfinum building. To represent the U.S. in two programs, the Czechs invited Manhattan's brash, brilliant 27-year-old Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. For a week Bernstein, who speaks no Czech, waved an impatient baton at musicians rehearsing unfamiliar rhythms. At week's end sold-out houses heard a reasonable facsimile of more modern music than most U.S. concertgoers hear in a season...