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...memorably quiet Jim. Wendy Hiller, not seen on Broadway since The Heiress, again gives a beautiful performance, again raises, through no fault of her own, a small demur. Glowingly vital and magnetic, Actress Hiller could never really quite seem a colorless, mousy heiress, nor seems now an oversized half-freak. Her acting brings some of its most resonant moments to O'Neill's play, but never quite authenticates the plight of O'Neill's heroine. Doomed or bedeviled Wendy Hiller might seem, but misbegotten never...
Then twice in the next three minutes the Crimson had the puck in front of the B.C. cage, with goalie Alvie Pitts on the ice to the side after making a save: twice an open net, and twice by some miracle no score resulted. This turn of events--the freak B.C. goal and two such narrow misses--would have broken the spirit of many teams...
...rather more than the ear can bear. The music sounds like a sneak attack on Debussy by MacNamara's band, and the commentary reads like a TV pitch for nature's way, spelled backwards. Yet across the screen there moves in lustrous color a beautifully photographed freak show. At its best, it is popular science at not very far from its best...
...country a great service by printing the background of Estes Kefauver [Sept. 17]. You sum up his accomplishments and they spell zero; no wonder he relies on shaking at least 500 hands a day to get votes. If by freak chance he should become President of the farmers and labor barons whom he concentrates on, we'd need another President for most Americans...
Often, his efforts to avoid unpleasantness take the form of hypochondria-as he puts it, "I'm a doctor freak." Although his doctor says he is an unusually healthy specimen, Duke tends to mistrust his ability to stay well; if his pulse rate seems slow to him in Las Vegas, it means a call to New York, for his doctor to take the next plane out. He will not tolerate air conditioning-"You know, I'm delicate. My hair gets wet, the air conditioning hits it, and I get a sharp pain right down the middle...