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WESTPORT, CONN. Country Playhouse. Hans Conried plays a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters both the boon and bane of his existence in Herman Shumlin's Spofford, a cut-down version of Peter De Vries' novel, Reuben, Reuben...
...SPOFFORD. Playwright-Director Herman Shumlin has performed an autopsy on Peter DeVries' novel Reuben, Reuben. Melvyn Douglas gives a cunningly ingratiating performance as a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters the bane and boon of his existence. The melancholy fact remains that like an obituary an adaptation of a novel to the stage says good things of the dead without restoring them to life...
Soundproof Partying. "The privacy is wonderful," says Mrs. Richardson Spofford, a biology professor at the University of Chicago, who lives with her accountant husband, their three-year-old son, her mother and a couple of students in the 18-room Tudor mansion that once belonged to the Wilson meatpacking family. "The rooms are virtually soundproof. My mother can be playing television full blast and I'll never hear it. When the annual community ball is given in our ballroom, Mother doesn't hear...
...Capt. Spofford's post at the University will be taken over by Capt. Richard B. Redmayne at a change-of-command ceremony on Feb. 29. Capt. Redmayne has a distinguished war record and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart...
Capt. Richard T. Spofford, professor of Naval Sciences, will welcome the assembled guests, and Col. DeVere Armstrong, professor of Military Science and Tactics, will administer the oath of office at the joint ceremonies. The main speaker will be Rear Admiral F.B. Warder, Commander, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet...