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...Falk, who for a dozen summers had produced plays in New England Mutual Hall, decided to throw in the towel after losing money the past two summers. Stepping into the gap came the Boston Summer Playhouse. The first offering, a dreadful item called Fair Game, was given an insultingly inept performance. After a quick reshuffling of plans, the Playhouse bounced back with a fairly amusing production of F. Hugh Herbert's delightful sophisticated comedy, The Moon is Blue, in which Frank Langella and Frederick Morehouse '59-3 performed with considerable skill. Jan de Hartog's The Four-poster, a series...
...instrument was his veto power; five times so far this year, the President vetoed measures he considered extravagant, and each time he made his veto stick. By mid-session, even as Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was grumbling about "vetoes, vetoes, vetoes," the Democratic congressional leadership threw in the towel, began working for legislation close enough to the President's own spending recommendations to escape the veto. At that point, the Eisenhower budget battle...
...Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
Besides his towel-and-sheet empire-13 textile mills in the Carolinas alone-Charles A. Cannon, 66, also owns the North Carolina city of Kannapolis (pop. 30,000). His father founded it in 1906 and gave it its name, a loose derivative of his own. Kannapolis has no mayor, city manager, city council, charter or legal existence. As president of the Cannon Mills Co., vested proprietor of Kannapolis, Charles Cannon presides over trash collection, fire fighting and street maintenance, collects rent from 1,700 homes, subsidizes the police department and owns most municipal real estate, including the downtown business district...
Erhard had taken himself to a Finnish sauna at a Black Forest resort last week to sweat off some of his 240 Ibs. in the steam bath and to be worked over by his masseur. The phone call was from Chancellor Adenauer in Bonn. Wrapping a towel around his midriff, the professor padded to a dressing-room telephone...