Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fully intending to take over city hall. Commissioner-elect Murray also laid siege to the statehouse, announced that Governor Meyner should give him control of Hudson County patronage. Brash Newcomer Murray had Meyner over a barrel. Meyner is running for re-election this year, and badly needs the 70,000 vote plurality Hudson County could give him. Moreover, Meyner, a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 1960. needs to be re-elected by a handsome margin if he intends to stay in the big time. Says Murray, waiting for the governor to desert Kenny and come his way: "Meyner...
...Over a Barrel. If Kenny was strong in the statehouse, he was fading back home in Jersey City. Aware of this, Murray joined a city commission ticket made up of other unhappy anti-Kenny men, fought a hard seven-week rough-and-ready municipal campaign. Their anti-boss pitch was effective. In last week's election the Murray men buried four members of Kenny's five-man slate (Kenny himself was not running) in an outpouring of votes...
...made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters because...
...Hepburn tends to wallow in the wake of Shirley Booth, who played the part on Broadway, she never quite sinks in the comic scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy. What redblooded moviegoing male will be able to resist the seductive lisp with which...
...Keaton's silent comedies to his noisy domestic tragedies, the guffaws turn to unmitigated guff. Donald O'Connor, who plays the title role, does pretty well with the pratfalls, but when it comes to imitating Old Sourpuss, he ought to go soak his head in the pickle barrel...