Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no information last night on whether the independent barbershop in the Commander Hotel, which traditionally charges students $1.25 for a clipping, would join the march skyward...
This summer 7,000 of the U.S. Government's employees in Washington are college boys and girls, working during their vacations at everything from ghosting speeches for Congressmen to sweeping out the Senate barbershop and digging graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Most of these toilers are Washington-area residents filling the handiest vacation jobs. They type, file and tabulate in a summer version of the classic civil-service grind. But among the roughly 2,000 students with more exciting work are college-sponsored "interns,'' who have proliferated in recent years through the pioneering efforts of Dartmouth, Wellesley...
With this spindle-thin plot, Music Man needs every available prop of period nostalgia, from Fourth of July fireworks to Wells Fargo wagons. The trouble is that the movie wobbles continually between sentiment, satire and satiety; one barbershop-quartet number is a treat; half a dozen are a trial. Robert Preston nonetheless puts enough showmanly sizzle into a revival-styled pitch called Trouble and the celebrated Seventy-Six Trombones to make at least part of the 2½ hours roll by like enchanted minutes. The Music Man is only funny by fidgets, but lip-curling Hermione Gingold, looking like Nero...
Thursday 12 noon, Sewing Group 7:30 p.m., Barbershop Quartet 8 p.m., Ceramics Group
...parapets and playing fields that looms out of monotonous farmland like a Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only 18 have done so in the past four...