IN telling the story of a brash, cocky, crowing, everlastingly pushy entertainer named George M. Cohan, the makers of "George M!" have come up with a brash, cocky, crowing, everlastingly pushy show.  

Yankee Doodle's Out of Breath; ' George M!'

Warner, Sylvia Townsend: T.H. White. A Biography

Lucky In Art Unlucky In Life

THE nation's economy is now in full bloom. Perhaps, however, it has flowered too soon and too extensively.  

Economy Now in Full Bloom;; The Week in Finance: Too Much Bloom?

Trudeau Assumes Office in Canada; TRUDEAU SWORN AS CANADA'S HEAD

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Dancer's Image streaked into the lead in the stretch to overtake Iron Ruler and finish in first place in the $113,500 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct yesterday. Before the largest crowd of the season, 55,716 fans, Bobby Ussery guided Peter Fuller's representative across the finish line of the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds by three-quarters of a length, in front of the October House Farm's Iron Ruler.  

DANCER'S IMAGE TAKES WOOD, WITH IRON RULER NEXT; 55,716 AT BIG A

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 20 -- The Olympic Games went on trial here today. At stake was not only the survival of the Games as a worldwide movement, but the very structure of the organization itself.  

Olympic Committee Elders Weigh So. Africa Question; Nine-Man Board Meets for Five Hours in Luxury and Comfort at Lausanne, but Fails to Reach a Decision

A Day or a Month On Britain's Royal River; A Day or a Month On Britain's Royal River

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The University of Pennsylvania's "at random" varsity crew rowed up the Harlem River yesterday faster than a powered Circle Line sightseeing boat was traveling and won the Childs Cup race from Princeton and Columbia.  

Swift Penn Crew Gains Childs Cup; Penn Crew Beats Princeton, Columbia

The sense of crisis that has permeated the financial markets off and on since the devaluation of the British pound last November returned again last week.  

But a Mood of Crisis Erupts; A Crisis Mood Returns To Financial Markets

Special com of Higher Educ Bd and Harlem leaders weighs proposals to set up teacher coll and health career center in Harlem; both insts to be tuition-free and enroll large numbers of Negroes and Puerto Ricans through liberalized admission policy; Dr A Logan and D I Ashe are com co-chmn; Center for Urban Educ and L Harris poll show area residents would prefer inst other than teacher coll but will accept such coll

CITY U. MAY START 2 SPECIAL SCHOOLS TO SERVE HARLEM; Training in Teaching and in Medical Fields Weighed by Board's Committee

Article on returning Peace Corps volunteers who go into business, about 12%

Suburbanites Come to City and Help Clean Up Slums; CLEANUP HELPED BY SUBURBANITES

Article on role of Rey as Exec Comm pres; Brussels hq and Rey illus

Common Market's Uncommon Chief; Rey Leads Trade Bloc With Vigor

SAIGON, South Vietnam -American officials in Saigon breathed a deep sigh of relief last week. The South Vietnamese Government, after an initial week of panic and dismay over sudden American peace moves, was finally relaxing.

Vietnam I: View on Peace; Saigon Wonders and Worries

AUSTIN, Tex. -- The tides of the Pacific Ocean have drawn Lyndon Johnson ever westward over the last three years. They have affected everything he has done as President, claiming much of his attention and resources. Some would argue that more than anything else, they finally dragged him down.  

Stakes in Asia; Johnson Plays a Showdown Hand

THERE is probably something to be said for nearly everything boring except boring movies. Boring people, boring books (boring criticism, certainly), boring days -- all of them are likely to have something decent, restful or even liberating about them.  

Astronauts, Maoists -- and Girls; Astronauts and Maoists

survey on increasing move of young clerics away from neighborhood chs, largely because new stress on role of lay experts has cut distinctiveness of min's role; many clerics are developing specialties such as youth work, taking up 'nonprofessional' mins or forsaking ordination to develop new mins as theologically trained laymen

Many Pastors Leaving Church For 'Better' Way to Serve God; Pastors Leaving Church for Better Way to Serve

SAIGON, South Vietnam -Wherever top-ranking military officers gather in Saigon these days you hear them mention "late May or June." The words do not refer to the opening of the summer season (Saigon is already sweltering) but to heat of a different kind -- the next major offensive by the enemy.  

Vietnam II: View on War; The Generals Brace for New Attacks

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., April 20 -- All of a sudden, Manager Ralph Houk's modest approach to the current New York Yankees is paying dividends. The idea is that if you minimize your own mistakes, run the bases whenever possible and get good pitching, the opposition will make enough mistakes to let you win your share of games.  

YANKS TRIUMPH, 4-2; TWINS ARE HALTED BY STOTTLEMYRE

MONTREAL, April 20 -- Jean Beliveau, a 17-year National Hockey League player, appearing in his 15th Stanley Cup competition, scored three goals and assisted on another tonight to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks and a 2-0 lead in their East Division final playoffs.  

Canadiens Win, 4-1, For 2-0 Series Lead; Canadiens Defeat Hawks by 4-1 As Beliveau Gets Three Goals

Bill Singer of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a twohitter against Tom Seaver of the New York Mets yesterday, struck out 12 batters and still lost, 3-2.  

MET HOMER BEATS DODGERS, 3-2; SEAVER IS VICTOR

Washington intelligence circles rept de Vosjoli broke with de Gaulle Govt in '63, refused to return to France for fear of arrest, has been living in US in reduced circumstances; sources close to intelligence community say he has had financial support from CIA

Ex-Aide Asserts de Gaulle Ignored Warning on Spies; DE GAULLE SCORED BY FRENCH EX-AIDE

IN Bernard Shaw's comedy "You Never Can Tell," a well-educated man, when asked if he thinks a proposed marriage is unwise, replies, "Yes, I do: All matches are unwise. It's unwise to be born; it's unwise to be married; and it's unwise to live, and it's wise to die." To which the gentleman's unlettered father interjects, "So much the worse for wisdom."  

April 21, 1968

Headlines from April 21, 1968

Yankee Doodle's Out of Breath; ' George M!'

Lucky In Art Unlucky In Life

Economy Now in Full Bloom;; The Week in Finance: Too Much Bloom?

Trudeau Assumes Office in Canada; TRUDEAU SWORN AS CANADA'S HEAD

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Billboard 200

The Graduate

Blooming Hits

Aretha: Lady Soul

The Dock Of The Bay

Parsley; Sage; Rosemary And Thyme

Historical Context for April 21, 1968