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...Jimmy Clark, the P.G.A.'s Azalea Open golf tournament, with a record 16-under-par 272; at Wilmington, N.C. Clark, 30, an unknown pro from Laguna Beach, Calif, had won only $180 this season before hitting the $2,000 Azalea jackpot...
...neighbor's orchards. Elsa works steadily at her non-paying job with Hollywood's Turnabout Theater (TIME, May 24, 1948), and shuttles between nightclub engagements in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Charles has rearranged their living room into a studio where he trains the dedicated and largely unknown young actors of the Charles Laughton Players. When he goes to bed, he surrounds himself with books (from Proust to Plato) and samples them as a dowager might a box of chocolates. When a friend chided him for being self-consciously highbrow, Laughton replied simply: "You've got to remember...
Four songs by Yehudi Wyner, 1G, received the most appreciative applause of the evening. Although Brownie, based on a poem by A. A. Milne, was described as being in a "lighter vein," it is in fact a graphic representation of a small child's momentary terror of the unknown. The composer tellingly recreates the image of the poem--a child's imaginary view of the sinister "Brownie," dispelled by the interjection of a companion--by a parallel tension and relaxation of the musical line. When You Are Old And Gray, based on a poem by Yeats, is a beautifully conceived...
...opera will be repeated tonight, and should draw another full house. However, the question still presents itself: why produce Semele at all? The idea of offering unknown works is a good one, but there are other unusual operas far more deserving of performance. The Lowell Society has demonstrated this year that it is a top-flight musical organization; perhaps next year they will present a top-flight opera...
...happened to Petey since, in My Son's Story (Knopf; $3). "The publishing of it is a ripping apart of his privacy and ours," he says, but he does it for three reasons: "First, the American people ought to know more than they do about an almost unknown and yet common tragedy in their midst . . . If they know, they can do a great deal to improve the handling of it. Second, certain people, doing a magnificent if lonely job trying to meet the situation now, deserve a public recognition. And finally . . . perhaps our account of groping our way through...