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...Alexander, even in the glass and cinder block guest suite on the top floor of Leverett House F Tower, is to walk into another world. You knock; he opens the door. "Professor Alexander?" you say. "Yes," he says, and blinks. "Won't you come in? Will you have some ginger beer?" You try to explain why you have come, but he waves you to a chair, apologizes for having nothing but ginger beer, and asks you won't you have some. Only after you are seated and have at least refused his offer, are you allowed to speak...
...says Mele, "Tony can be one of the game's great hitters." Only one bad thing seems remotely likely to happen to Oliva: choking on a chuckle. A gold tooth gleams in his constant smile, and his laugh explodes like a marble popping out of a bottle of ginger ale. Tony's English is still practically nonexistent, and he is just beginning to learn his teammates' names. "Big Powder," he calls fellow Cuban Vic Power...
...troop through the ropes, flash hearty grins at the crowd, and receive the perfunctory applause of nostalgic recognition. In more or less the same perfunctory way, Fade Out-Fade In gives walk-on-and-off bits of business to actors who play characters recognizable as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, the Busby Berkeley chorines, Boris Karloff, Tarzan, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Garbo, Mae West, and Louella Parsons. Meanwhile, the main show goes down for the long, long count of boredom...
Wall Street learned that Simon has picked up 20% of the stock in Manhattan-based Canada Dry Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of ginger ale and soda water and the third largest maker of soft drinks (after Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola). At the same time, Simon bought 95,000 more shares of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, raising his total to 205,000 of the company's 4,600,000 widely owned shares. Most or all of these 205,000 shares are owned by the Simon-controlled McCall Corp., publisher of McCall's, Redbook and other magazines...
Tuesday, April 7 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Hostess Ginger Rogers, singers (Robert Merrill, James McCracken, Hoagy Carmichael, Helen O'Connell) and dancers (Edward Villella, Patricia McBride...