Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephone atop Washington's airport control tower jangled, and a Texas drawl exhorted, "Damn it, I've got a Senator up there somewhere on Northwest's Flight 300. He's two hours overdue and I want him down quick. He's got to vote. You better be awful sure he's not stacked up there." Minutes after Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson's telephone call one afternoon last week, Minnesota's airbound Senator Hubert Humphrey landed and was whisked across the Potomac in a Capitol police squad car, sirens ayowl. He arrived...
...actors I've known who is literate enough to write," said a pressagent last week backstage at New York's 46th Street Theater. He was talking about TIME'S Roger S. Hewlett, who wrote this week's cover story on GWEN VERDON, star of Damn Yankees...
...Hasty Pudding Club and Harvard in '33, Hewlett went into the Depression-years theater. When he had a job it was usually with GEORGE ABBOTT, Damn Yankees' director. Actor Hewlett played bits and served as Abbott's assistant stage director in Boy Meets Girl, toured coast-to-coast with the Brother Rat road show, understudying Tom Ewell, current Broadway star. In Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Hewlett portrayed a newsman...
...Lola, in Broadway's smash new musical Damn Yankees, a relative newcomer named Gwen Verdon (rhymes with spurred on) warms to her work like a flash fire in a dry thicket. Breathing a warning ("Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets . . .") that is already familiar to jukebox listeners all over the nation, she lays siege to her innocent quarry in a hectically eclectic attempt at seduction. No woman's wile is too corny or battle-worn for Lola as she romps about the stage to an insistent Latin rhythm, flinging caution and clothing to the winds. Stretched on a locker...
Among musicals, the most winning were the first and last to open-The Boy Friend and Damn Yankees. Silk Stockings and Fanny were both lavish and hollow; more rewarding were House of Flowers, which bloomed brightly before it drooped, and Plain and Fancy, which had a nice Pennsylvania Dutch tang if not always enough musicomedy verve...