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...follow advice as old as Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrical theory, who died in 1879. It was Maxwell who pointed out that resistors could be bent into hairpin turns so that their current flowed in two directions, canceling out capacitance or inductance. Later, Physicist Georges Chaperon wound resistances into intertwined coils with the same result...
...chaperon, of course: creaky old (34) Arnold Palmer, who, with a record $128,230 in the bank this year, seems content to let Jack take home the trophies as long as he takes home the jack. The only local tournament last week was something called the Fig Garden Village Open, and Jack and Arnie flew off to Paris to defend the honor of the U.S. in the Canada Cup-a kind of General Assembly of golf that matched two-man teams from 33 nations...
...with most musicals, the story is a little silly and it would be pointless to recount its intricacies here. The basic problem is the late arrival of Charley's aunt (Johanna Madden) for a senior week-end at Oxford. She is supposed to chaperon Charley (Chuck Breyer), his roommate (Dean Stolber) and their dates. When she doesn't arrive, Charley masquerades as his aunt, leaving everyone to wonder where's Charley...
According to the new rules the three clubs involved must file a chaperon report with the dean's office when planning to have girls spend the night at a lodge. The deans must approve the chaperone and record his name. Watson said that a married couple, or possibly an unmarried student in his late 20's, would be acceptable to the university as a chaperon...
...musical chairs played with beds. Philippe (George Baker), who must leave Paris on regimental maneuvers, asks his pal Marcel (Roddy McDowall) to look after his mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner of Poe's Raven. From across the frozen tundra comes the Prince of Salestria, who wants to thaw out with Lulu in the same...