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Millionairess Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, 30, wife of sexagenarian Conductor Leopold Stokowski and self-admitted washout as an amateur actress at 16, starred before a sellout audience at Pennsylvania's Pocono Playhouse as the princess in Ferenc Molnar's The Swan. Consensus of the critics: "Nerveless poise." With Stoky's blessing, Gloria, mother of two and a painter of some commendable abstractions, suddenly found herself "enthusiastic about making the stage a career...
Just a year ago Backus, now a strapping giant (6 ft. 5 in., 218 Ibs.), and still doggedly heaving the 35-lb. weight, managed to throw it a new record distance, a quarter of an inch, farther than Bane's mark. Again Backus suffered a disappointing washout. On inspection, it was found that the 35-lb. weight was a few ounces underweight...
Dever, who has been prominently mentioned as a possible senatorial candidate against Saltonstall, had other harsh words for the present Senator. "I like Leverett," he insisted, "but down in Washington they call him Senator Zero. He's a complete washout...
...Pentagon Washout. Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome. Last spring, after two years of work had gone into it, Secretary of Defense Wilson canceled its "military requirement," and work on it slowed to a crawl...
...anybody's guess. A team with much potential, but with many early season losses, the nine most probably will solidify its record. It is worth remembering, however, that the Crimson's only other southern trip ended in a southern trip ended in a loss to Penn and a Washout at Princeton...