Word: chuck
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...musical's tall, gangling antihero, Chuck Baxter (Jerry Orbach), is an underling at Consolidated Life and looks suspiciously like a poor insurance risk. His arms seem to dangle somewhere close to his knees, and his face bears the gasp-jawed incredulity of a deep-sea diver whose air supply has just been cut off. What makes him mildly appealing is that he confides his utter lack of confidence in self-abasing little asides to the audience. It is hard to think ill of a man who thinks so ill of himself...
Cure: Love. By happenstance, Chuck discovers "a way to be thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...
...touring the farm lands, or in Paris hosting a diplomatic do or two, chances are U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver is out on a tennis court. Last week it was a Franco-American match in the gardens of the French Senate, as Shriver, playing alternately with U.S. Amateurs Chuck Pasarell and Arthur Ashe, went into action against a pair of French aces. After four games, the score was 2-2, then a smashing Shriver forehand put away the fifth game of the foreshortened set for the Americans. Wasn't it a bit undiplomatic for the Yanks...
...Name three shows in which Chuck Conners starred...
Powered by the explosive running of halfbacks Bill Bryson and "Crazy Legs" Chuck Hamilton, the Harvard CRIMSON will put its 23 game winning streak on the line tomorrow when it meets an uncultured squad from the Yale Daily News...