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HARVARD GLEE CLUB AND RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY will swell the ranks of the BSO for the Boston's performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. The program also includes Bruckner's To Deum and an Adagio from his string quintet; Charles Munch returns to the podium. Symphony Hall; 2:15 P.M. (Repeat performance SATURDAY...
...next week, in a new spot two blocks east), and the gilded popinjays of two worlds turned up to keen. Surrealist Salvador Dali was there in a vest that could have been made by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, chatting with Mrs. Hugh ("Chic Rosie") Chisholm. Toots Shor made a ground swell on the dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia, as everyone had a last...
...worst victims are subject to terrifying sensations. Their arms and legs, like reflections in an amusement park's crazy mirror, seem to change size and shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring...
...Griffith show was but one of four new CBS comedy efforts (the others: Can did Camera, Tom Swell, Pete and Gladys) to make the top 40 shows. Other comedy attempts in what was to have been the great season of laughter include NBC's Peter Loves Mary, unfortunately fairly successful, while Bringing Up Buddy (CBS) is doing just poorly enough to give hope of its early disappearance. Another comedy casualty is Angel (CBS), whose engaging French star, Annie Farge, ought to be salvaged from the wreckage...
...Security payments and company pension plans make it possible for more and more of the retired to live in such developments. One-fourth of the 15.5 million U.S. citizens over age 65 receive between $1,000 and $2,000 a year from Social Security and pensions. Their ranks will swell as pension plans expand and the number of those over 65 soars to 20 million by 1970. Recognizing the possibilities, the Federal Housing Administration has given the housing projects a boost; it guarantees up to 90% of mortgages on profit-making retirement homes...