Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feels that the "new jazz" is too avant-garde for the average cat. The jazz ground swell of the '30s found joints and after-hours sessions in every U.S. city and many a crossroads town. Everybody who cared could get hip and come on without a doctor's degree and a libretto. It wasn't cool, man, but it sure was solid-a real ball...
Actually Noonan became a fixture at Dillon purely by chance. After graduating from Rindge Technical School in Cambridge, where he played football, hockey and baseball, he went to work for a Boston doctor. "I used to come over to watch a friend play at Harvard in those days," he recalls. "At the time there was an opening for a trainer. My friend finally persuaded me to apply, and here I am." From this rather humble beginning as a trainer with no experience and little knowledge, Eddie Noonan has risen to the presidency of the Eastern division of the College Trainers...
Black-Eyed Susan, however, does not consist entirely of such fascinating action, for the author has also studded his play with what seems to pass for witty dialogue. "Chinese food for breakfast?" queries a feminine colleague. "Well," replies the doctor with obvious glee, "the sun rises in the East." Though not exactly fine repartee, the cast manages such lines with surprising deftness. Indeed, it seems to relish them...
Because of this, Black-Eyed Susan receives a slick performance and manages to escape complete banality. Vincent Price, the only "name" star, does not stand much above his partners, most of whom are equally competent. On stage, his voice has a nasal quality, however, which mars the doctor's studied urbanity. The only actively offensive character is Susan's husband, played by Charles Boaz, whose simpering description of how to make bumpy love in a taxi-cab reaches some sort of low for the evening...
...physician will be on duty at Still-man Infirmary at all times except during Hygiene Department office hours. Until now, a doctor has been available only from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays at the Hygiene Building...