Word: connor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love. By the fadeout, Madam Ambassador has not only won the Order of Lichtenburg (which...
...picture gives Donald O'Connor, as the irrepressible press attaché, an opportunity to display his pleasant singing voice and limber legs. It also gives veteran Movie Villain George Sanders a chance to play a romantic role for a change, which he does attractively, and to sing for the first time on the screen in an agreeable lyric bass voice...
...Mulvey, Emerson, and Hedberg set a school record for that event by two seconds with a 2:53 clocking. The old time of 2:55 was set by Mulvey, Emerson, and Kon Huebsch. But Yale, in winning, established a pool and meet record. Kiphuth used Dick Thoman, Dennis O'Connor and Donovan in a try for the world's record. Except for two bad turns they might have had it, too. Their time was 2:48.4--1.3 off the record of Ohio State but two seconds under the other records set by recent Yale teams. Dillingham's last competitive dive...
Earlier in the evening, Emerson stayed with the Blue's O'Connor until the last lap, when the Ell junior opened a comfortable lead to win the 100-yard breaststroke. O'Connor did 1:00.5 for a pool record, Emerson was timed in 1:02.9. The Crimson's Ralph Zani, third in the 200 breaststroke, took fifth in the shorter distance, although his time was better than the fourth place finisher...
...yard breaststroke--Won by O'Connor, Y; 2, Emerson, H; 3, Douglas, Williams; 4, Bird, Navy; 5, Zani, H. Time 1:00.5 (Pool record...