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...plenty of background to draw upon: the splendor of a royal court, the color of a still half-savage country, the flavor of a bygone age, the piquancy of a polygamous household. And the clash between a potentate Oriental enough to think women a mere plural for whim and a woman British enough not to lower her eyes or her colors before royalty makes for good dramatic comedy...
...name, shining on the marquee of Manhattan's Henry Miller's Theater, was there neither by producer's whim nor happy fluke. Against the weight of popular legend, she had climbed to her eminence the hard way, through years of professional trial & error, part success and part failure. New York City's critics had watched her rise to stardom in seven Broadway plays, had seen her eclipsed by lesser stars in six Hollywood pictures. But in Playwright F. Hugh Herbert's fresh and frothy comedy, The Moon Is Blue (TIME, March 19), Barbara had returned...
...Wendell still rules with the air of a cultured coach, still inviting the new boys out for a Sunday picnic, still setting "surprise holidays" whenever his whim dictates, still keeping pace with The Hill's old motto-"Whatsoever things are true." But last week, Headmaster Wendell announced that he wanted to change his job. He thought a younger man should take over, so that he could devote his full time to building The Hill's financial future. His plans for the future are in line with everything he has always worked for-a still broader scholarship program, additional...
...sending a representative to the Business School course something a firm will do on a whim. It's so expensive, in fact, that most of the A.M.P.'s come from "blue chip" firms which can afford to lose an important executive, pay his salary while he's absent (they are invariably over $10,000), and pay his expenses at the Business School, which amount to between $1,500 and $1,800 for the 13-week period. The tuition fee alone is $800, and the executives also have to pay $15, $225275, and $350 for medical fee, room, and food respectively...
...radio shows come on the air and old shows go off largely at the whim of advertisers. BBC has no sponsored shows, but it has Audience Research, a comprehensive survey system that dwarfs such U.S. research organizations as Nielsen, Hooper and Pulse. Every day, the Audience Research staff interviews a 3,000-man segment of the British public to find out what shows, if any, they listened to. Periodical reports are made on individual shows with listeners specifying what they like and don't like, as well as how they would rate individual performers...