Word: gilbert
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Yeomen is a bit of a change for the Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan. The tone of most of their work is one of wit and buffoonery laced with pathos; Yeomen features pathos laced with buffoonery and very little wit. Since Gilbert's wit is pointed, while his pathos is pretty but quite lacking in real bite, Yeomen is not the Messrs.' best work. But since Sullivan's music is, as always, pleasant to the point of bewitchment; since Gilbert's buffoonery is of a very high grade; and since the pathetic moments can be quite touching, why complain...
...Gilbert Leroy ("Buddy") Dial, 21, Rice; 6 ft. 1 in., 180 lbs. Senior. Major: physical education. Not notably fast but extraordinarily shifty and sure-handed on offense; blossomed this year on defense, piled up end sweeps, helped his team hold Army's famed halfbacks Anderson and Dawkins to 19 yds. rushing in 14 carries. The pros like him, but feel he must add a good deal of weight to withstand the inevitable pounding a player gets in the big time...
Arkansas' Senator John McClellan and his labor investigating committee reconvened in Washington last week to poke some more into the rats' nest of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Into the committee's hearing room came San Antonio's Roy J. Gilbert to tell how the Teamsters had tried to organize his 135-vehicle Southwestern Motor Transport, Inc. in 1955. When he balked at the Teamsters' demands, Gilbert said, they stoned and tossed homemade fire bombs at his trucks, planted marijuana in the cars of Southwestern employees, made threatening telephone calls. They also considered shooting Gilbert...
...Behind Gilbert came Texas Ranger Zeno Smith, in cowboy boots, shirt, hat-and with bugged recordings to back up Gilbert's story. The Rangers had listened in while one Buck Owens, ex-Teamster bullyboy turned Ranger informer, tossed leading questions at San Antonio Teamster Business Manager Raymond Shafer in motel room conversations. Sample exchange, splashed with BEEPs to blot out the profanity...
Died. Charles Kendall Gilbert, 80, onetime (1947-50) Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York; after long illness; in Charlemont, Mass...