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...form of Harry Truman, were kind. The President named Cook SEC Chairman to succeed Harry A. McDonald, who took over as RFC boss. Cook is a tough-talking, fast-moving bureaucrat with a sharp legal and financial mind and the desire to "get up some of the old fizz and vinegar that...
...Cook has fizz to spare. As a youngster in Escanaba, Mich., he started peddling papers, helped work his way through the University of Michigan with a job in the library and with bridge winnings, and started at the bottom in SEC. He got a law degree at night school, moved up to assistant director, then spent two years in the Justice Department before he left Government service in June 1947 to enter private law practice...
...chair or a bed. Relate your figures to this setting and let us have them doing something-making love, quarreling, misconducting themselves-as you please-but doing something." His aim was to catch his subject unaware, "before the fizziness in his momentary mood becomes still and flat." The fizz is still in Sickert's best paintings: his nudes resting on the rumpled bed of his dingy studio, the Sunday afternoon dejection of the middleaged, parlor-bound couple in Ennui, the ironic, over-the-shoulder glimpse of a bedroom dialogue in The Prevaricator...
Under Alfred Drake's direction, the show has fizz at times, though it always lacks kick. Never very nostalgic, it seems to have come out of the past rather than gone back to it; never very regional, it displays much less the tang of Maine than the trend of Oklahoma! The lack of real lure is basic: the book is too cute and commonplace; the tunes seem reminiscent even when they are sprightly; the lyrics have an arid cleverness. And though George Balanchine is a superb "serious" choreographer, his dances here suggest a few bright ideas plus a farewell...
...Year's in the American Way. Football stadia and dozens of marching bands stood ready for the bowl games; so, for the night before, did hundreds of nightclubs and hotels, endless shelves of whisky, thousands of waiters, bartenders, jugglers, tenors and striptease dancers, and a fortune in fizz water, paper horns, tow cars, aspirin and ice bags...