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...this ditty, 70-year-old stage & screen Actress Ethel Grimes does a vigorous job that comes nearest to giving the show the comedy it badly needs. The young people in the cast-Mary McCarty, Allyn McLerie, Eddie Albert-are all pleasant enough, but their roles are definitely on the stale side. What does most to relieve the sameness and tameness of Miss Liberty are Jerome Robbins' gay, rowdy dances. They are much the best thing in the show...
...been going on in earnest. In unremitting hot weather the shell rowed up to 15 miles a day all last week. The crew is now easing up on the distance, Bolles' theory being not to drive a crew through increasingly difficult workouts which might leave it stale on race day, but to bring it along so that it is at a mental and physical peak just for the hour of the long pull...
There is a theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...
...most entertaining item in Signature is a story called "A Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...
Thus, he argued, the breasty covers not only leave a stale taste in the purchaser's mouth, but are just not good business. On this basis, Armitage continued, book-reading can never compete in the entertainment field with "such superbly packaged rivals as radio, movies, and television...