Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth's recently announced change to a threeterm system should prove conclusive to providing fuller education for Dartmouth undergraduates. This system has proved successful at Stanford and other American Universities. Any plan decreasing the number of simultaneous courses and therefore furthering more concentrated study is highly desirable...
There is nothing of the soft sell in the Pru's old-fashioned salesmanship. Like Fuller Brushmen, each agent has 300 to 400 families to cover. The Pru man gently but bluntly reminds his customer of the need for a "cleanup" fund to handle funeral expenses, explains what social security and company pension plans will provide. He asks his prospect if he wants to leave his family a home or just a mortgage; He talks about education for the children. "Invariably," says one Pru executive, "the worried prospect lays down a program he can't possibly afford." Then...
Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
...despite the skill, it is hard to see why anybody should care an iota what happens to Fuller's hero. Life may mean nothing, positive values may be ephemeral dreams, and happiness may be best symbolized by the orgasm, but these are attitudes which at this late date make unstimulating reading. Yet it is the very monotony, the lack of anything difficult or original, which couples with the skillful whodunit to make "A Far Place" an eminently successful diversion. After all, who wants to be stimulated after eight hours in the stacks...
...facts he uncovers. The supporting cast is also excellent, without any exception. Keenan Wynn gives a particularly fine performance as a sardonic and unprincipled executive, and former television comedian Ed Wynn presents something of a small acting gem as the faintly comic radio station owner who gave Fuller his start in the business. But everybody who worked on The Great Man deserves some compliments for their taste and restraint. They have put together a very good little picture. --THOMAS K. SCHWABACHER