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Even better for Broadway's tired blood is the infusion of at least six new U.S. playwrights v. last year's one (Woody Allen). Edward Albee's own company, Theater 1968, is producing 39-year-old Actress Mary Mercier's Johnny No-Trump, the growth pains of a New York teenager. Another actor turned author, Stephen Levi, 26, will make his debut with Daphne in Cot tage D, starring William Daniels and Sandy Dennis as the widow of a famous movie star. Other hopefuls of the coming season...
Down 4-1, Harvard appeared headed for the second singles point needed to carry the decision into the doubles, the Crimson's usual strong trump. Number five man Jose Gonzalez, Harvard's most dependable performer for the past two seasons, had won his first set and led 5-3 in the second...
Hefner has also experienced some commercial failures, including Show Business Illustrated, which folded after nine issues with an estimated loss of $2,000,000, and Trump, a Mad-like humor magazine. On the other hand, the newly formed Playboy Press is thriving; last year, it sold $1,000,000 worth of books, most of them containing reprints from the magazine. At present, Playboy's staff is moving into larger quarters in Chicago's venerable Palmolive Building, leased for 63 years for $2,700,000. Thanks to eager press-agents, the building's famed beacon, whose beam can be seen...
Nobody Leaves. Levy's trump was an almost touchingly naive faith in the power of his incantation, "Come to me, baby." He even conned his onetime amoureuse, Jeanne Moreau, out of $10,000. When she threw him over, he took a heavy dose of barbiturates and nicked his wrists-but not before alerting two secretaries in the next room...
Social rules are always a topic of debate in any university context, and the private colleges will always retain the final trump card of being able to say, "if you don't like our rules, go elsewhere." But this ultimate retreat has not been espoused by the Summer School, and this in itself testifies that the administration is still open to suggestions...