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...savored the power of office more than Andrew J. May of Kentucky. As wartime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he reveled in having generals at his beck & call. If a "warm friend" or a good constituent wanted a favor (perhaps a war contract, perhaps a son sent to O.C.S.), Andy would pick up a phone, summon the official to his office, and arrange it on the spot...
...Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut. Colonel Woodruff (Thomas Beck), whose tough occupation job is to stabilize and denazify the Bavarian town...
...Chile, with 40,000 militants, they have three ministers in the new Cabinet. But in corrupt, revolution-weary Mexico the Commies, with a core of 9,000, have lost considerably in influence and Government patronage. These were the forces that Molotov's visiting envoys had at their beck...
Despite its wide use abroad (in Denmark, Norway, Russia, Canada, South America), U.S. authorities have been leary of BCG because 1) they feared that the original mild infection might in time become severe, 2) an experiment with poorly prepared BCG once caused a disastrous T.B. outbreak in Lübeck, Germany...
Towards 4:30* on that "first night" afternoon, some 1,200 people made the Martin Beck Theater resonant with that exhilarating precurtain buzz, like leaves before a storm, which has been familiar to theatergoers for 2,500 years. There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always...