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...delighted with the lively profile of Rudolf Bing. With the exception of one or two semantic twisters, I think it is a first-rate job-definitely ept, ane and ert. Sending Mr. Bing a bottle of Moselle as a preliminary shipboard softener-upper was a touch of genius. Champagne would have been all right for some people, but for Bing a bit gauche and outre. In the words of Talleyrand (almost): He is intolerable, but that is his only fault...
Post-Season Prime. The fastest, roughest basketball of all comes in the post-season games of the N.I.T. and N.C.A.A. championships, whose finals were played off last week. When perennially inept New Mexico suddenly got ept this year and landed in the N.I.T., Albuquerque kicked in $6,000 for a special single-city telecast of its heroes. The New Mexico team smothered N.Y.U., but lost ignominiously (54-86) to the Bradley Braves...
Resting securely on the bottom of the heap are Winthrop, 0-5-1, and Quincy, 0-4. The Puritans have been particularly in-ept, managing to push across only once touchdown all season...
...reduction, the two things usually go together, as in the case of one of 5BX's biggest boosters-Movie Actor Red Skelton. "He began the exercises-plus a bit of dieting-six months ago," said a friend last week, "and today he's lighter, slimmer and more ept than ever...
...best of the good things- a round song called The Story of Alice-is done with the high-styled nonsensicality of a good British revue number. There is some of the same appeal in a song-and-dance fandango called Gruntled: the gimmick of the lyrics (ept, kempt, scrutable) is pretty old hat, but the general air and the wacky ballroom dancing are gay Among the sketches, there is a funny take-off of the current movie Marty and a fairly funny take-off of matinee ladies Two or three other skits, on such themes as Tennessee Williams and marriage...