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...seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...
Over 100 candidates for the heavy and 150-pound varsity crews turned out last night to hear new head coach Harvey Love, 150's coach Bert Halnes, and Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles explain the 1950-51 rowing program. Love welcomed the candidates and announced that Fall crew practice would start on the Charles today. No changes from last year's policy are expected...
...Frances Longford-Don Ameche Show (weekdays, noon, ABC-TV) goes on for 60 minutes, haphazardly packed with songs, dance teams, dramatic skits, interviews that range from cover girls to Korean war veterans, and the commercials of three sponsors. Like Bert Parks, his daytime TV rival, Don Ameche alternately pouts and twinkles roguishly at the viewers. By treating him as just a great big silly boy, Frances Langford makes an appropriately maternal teammate...
...Mack (The Original Amateur Hour) "In contrast to Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, and Bert Parks . . . he is an eminently serious person who communicates to the audience a feeling of the importance, usefulness and rightness of his program. Respondents' references to him are quite reminiscent of the things they might say of an ideal arbiter, coach, Scout leader or father...
Tony Trabert (rhymes with Say, Bert) has an even temperament, the physique of a light heavyweight (6 ft., 175 Ibs.), the cat-quick footwork of a basketball player (which he is), and an ambition to become the world's best player. Trabert owes much of his fine game, and his determination to make it the finest, to his friend and doubles partner Bill Talbert, a New Yorker who hails from Cincinnati himself. Says Trabert: "He's like a brother . . . My tour of Europe with Bill in 1950 did much to raise my game. I learned so much that...