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ANDY GRIFFITH'S UPTOWN-DOWNTOWN SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight it's Don Knotts, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Maggie Peterson with the Bruce Davis Quintet, and a folk-rock group known as the Back Porch Majority...
...written six plays before he showed one to anybody. "I don't think they exist anymore," he says, and he doesn't seem to regard their loss as any great tragedy. He wrote Billy Budd with a Princeton colleague, Louis Coxe. In 1949, it was produced at an uptown off-Broadway theatre. Two years later a second version opened on Broadway to mixed reviews. The play promptly became a cause. John Mason Brown's notice in the Saturday Review reflected the tone of its admirers: "Those who did not see Billy Budd did their bit to discourage the theatre from...
...floors of bargain basement for subway shoppers, was an immediate success. On the strength of it, Bernard Gimbel took another chance. In 1923 he negotiated with Horace A. Saks to buy Saks's 34th Street store as well as the Fifth Avenue site where Saks was planning an uptown store. The negotiations took place partly in a railroad baggage car, where the two men sat atop an empty coffin and talked business. Saks's Cadillac-class merchandise now accounts for half of Gimbel Bros.' earnings...
...live by her wits." As a child, said Dunmeyer, he saw slumlords, dope peddlers and graft-taking cops enrich themselves by "flimflamming somebody"-which encouraged him to do likewise. "If you can't get downtown to take the big stack," he said, "you took the little stack uptown from the little guy who lived right around you." Added Dunmeyer: "You are in jail in the street or behind bars...
...bakery and operated by the Henry Street Settlement, an institution primarily devoted to neighborhood social work. Despite this isolation, Nikolais has built a big following that now affords him the luxury of a 21-week season and an increasing number of performances on tour, on TV, and at such uptown palaces as the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center...