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...varsity will have several more warmup contests before Ivy League play begins in earnest. The schedule: Dec. 12 at M.I.T. Dec. 16 Northeastern Dec. 17 Tufts Jan. 1-2 Poinsettia Tournament Jan. 8 at Columbia Jan. 9 at Cornell Jan. 13 at Dartmouth Jan. 16 Dartmouth Feb. 5 Cornell Feb. 6 Columbia Feb. 9 Boston College Feb. 12 Yale Feb. 13 Brown Feb. 19 at Penn Feb. 20 at Princeton Feb. 26 Princeton Feb. 27 Penn. Mar. 4 at Brown Mar. 5 at Yale
...Payoff. Meanwhile, other former contestants began to sing. Manhattan Adman Arthur Cohn Jr. recalled his appearance on The $64,000 Challenge. At a warmup, said Cohn, his opponent came out of a private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...
Into the hall one typical Thursday walked nine hopefuls with eight minutes apiece to do their stuff. Three lights concealed onstage gave them their signals: green (speak louder), yellow (one more minute), red (stop). By way of a warmup, Chicago's Mrs. Charles S. Clark, who started the audition system 41 years ago. promised a program of "artists in embryo," recited a little poem entitled, Because I Got Up So Early Today...
Smith had some warmup for his new show. Since October 1957, he has appeared on a daily CBS-TV news program as a news analyst, but is limited to a 90-second spot. Behind the News provides him with 30 minutes for the same job. He mixes in film clips, unrehearsed dialogues with special guests, and visual aids with his own commentary. But more time is not enough. Smith's first two programs (devoted to the U.S. visit of Russia's Anastas Mikoyan and the ascendancy of French President Charles de Gaulle) were not very deep. As usual...
...Russians, the eight-game series against American amateur and college teams was an excellent warmup for the world amateur championships in Prague in March. Their first three games were scheduled against the American Nationals, a hand-picked team of former collegians who will also play in Prague. Since learning the sport in 1946 from books and newsreels of Canadian pro games, the Russians have improved so rapidly that they won the world championship tournament in 1954, finished second every year since and skated off with the 1956 Olympic title...