Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOME swell institution it must be that throws together bang-up productions of Anything Goes, Gypsy and Pajama Game all in a season. Harvard can boast one of the niftiest informal musical comedy ensembles around. For the truth of the matter is, while they incline to shuffle their names and titles around a bit, the same little pikers in back of those other two shows--let alone much of the more resounding Cambridge entertainments over the last three years--are responsible for the latest and in lots of ways the most dazzling of them. People like Stu Beck, Bob Bush...
Some two years ago, Wall Street whiz-bang Meshulam Riklis assigned himself a Herculean task. He aimed to take over Schenley Industries, Inc., one of the nation's biggest distillers (1967 sales: $518 million), through a merger with Glen Alden Corp., part of the $1.4 billion sales complex that Riklis, 44, has shuffled together...
...this point, as the comedy bogs down along with the escape plans, the Germans move in and transfer the group to a sadistic stalag, where Frigg has a real chance to strut his stuff. This leads, of course, to a bit of bang-bang, followed by a spot of kiss-kiss, and then it's time to wake...
...Bang Bang. What makes Laugh-In laughable is not so much the material as the freewheeling, pell-mell pace at which it is dished out. One-liners fly like ack-ack, and if there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that...
Harvard freshmen made the drive's greatest contribution, collecting $14,000 over last year. "A person who gives in his freshman year tends to continue giving," Shutzer said. "The freshman class at Harvard did a really bang...