Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...socks, squirmed on his chair, periodically leaped up to loose a volley of abuse at a panting Kentucky player. Out on the floor of Louisville's Freedom Hall, the University of Kentucky basketball team was botching plays, losing passes, defending raggedly against an alert Illinois team. Coach Adolph Rupp relaxed only when a last-ditch Illinois shot rolled harmlessly off the rim, preserving a 76-75 Kentucky victory. Sighed the Baron: "That one nearly killed...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a nostalgic anthology of their own works, is anything but elaborate: three stools for props, a couple of quick dress changes for Betty, one shirt switch for Adolph. What makes the show remarkable is that chic, cleancut Betty, 39, and fast, Fernandel-faced Adolph, 43, are not one wit changed from their cellar years...
...turkey Bonanza Bound, they resurrect Inspiration, which credits women with inspiring great men through the ages. "That's enough of that Oriental stuff," cries Betty as Composer Rimsky-Korsakov's wife. "Just look around you in your own backyard." Suddenly she sees a backyard bee, screams, and Adolph frantically pursues the pest while buzz-buzzing The Flight of the Bumblebee...
...Perfect Partners. Brooklyn-born Betty and Bronx-born Adolph complement each other perfectly. As a performer Betty is ironic but cool and soothing-a superior psychiatric nurse. Adolph, with his rubber-kneed strut, his wild hair and mad eyes, is clearly her patient...
Their secret seems to be that no strain -from highly organized Betty's husband and two children to highly disorganized Adolph's feckless bachelorhood-has flawed a 20-year collaboration. "If I weren't stuck with her as my partner," Adolph once wrote in tribute to Betty, "I could be off on my own and free to starve to death-or worse yet, free to bore myself to death...