Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outdoor observation on the local scene also hits an all-year high in this season. For about a buck, or an H.A.A. coupon, you can drag the fortunate fe- male to Soldiers Field and watch baseball college style. Then in the last of the fifth, when the score is 32 to 7, you can leave, pick up a case of beer, and join the cheering thousands along the river banks who wonder "which crew is Harvard...
Petersen & Co. now have four numbers, including one about a motorized cowboy ("Instead of prodding with his spurs, he mashes on the gas"). But Lyricist Medley is still especially fond of Saturday Night Drag because it has a moral: "This hot-rodder gets caught, catch it? So maybe kids listenin' to the record don't go out and race except at a track. Catch...
...went up, 'If it goes, then-Drag it out, drag it out, drag...
Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
Much of the credit for an enjoyable production of this difficult play must go to the perceptive direction of Eric Bentley, who never lets the action drag for a moment. Lester Polakov's set also was effective, combining the elegance of an claborate town house with the stark atmosphere of a Chamber of Inquisition...