Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production at the Little Opera House, on a two-week furlough from off-Broadway, is powerfully effected. The full plight of a doctor who discovers the town's health baths to be polluted, is relentlessly revealed in successive episodes from the time his brother, the mayor, first suggests that he is a "traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators...
...audience realizes from the first the inevitable outcome of the action, if not from the title itself, then from the basis of the doctor's optimism--the liberal press and the "middle-class majority." Hovstad as the curly-haired 20th century editor is at his best when his true yellow colors are flying; his bourgeois publisher, superbly acted by Al Sperduto, epitomizes the egoistic middle-class man of moderation. The result of the audience's foreknowledge of failure is a tremendous irony that fills the play and nearly offsets its didacticism...
Near the close of the first quarter, one of the most spectacular scoring plays of the season took place. Koval faded back, fought off a determined group of swarming Middies, and threw the ball as far as he could down the middle of the field. Forty yards away, Quaker halfback Peter Schantz was outrunning two Navy defenders. He caught up with the football on the 10 and tallied--a 60-yard scoring pass. The Quakers...
After Penn halfback Ed Shaw punted to Ronnie Brandquist deep in Middie territory with only 1:30 left in the first half, Quaker end John Seksinsky smashed into Brandquist and a blocker so hard that he caused the Navy back to fumble. Seconds later, halfback Fred Doelling scored, and Shaw's kick gave Penn a 19-8 margin...
Bolstered by its hat-waving, unflagging cheering section, Navy fought back behind the passing of substitute quarter-back Jim Maxfield. The Middies scored twice in the first nine minutes of the final period...