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...ditty about fifty years of happy marriage. The play does concern itself with marriage, however, but only incidentally with as anniversary. Any further resemblance to its musical namesake ends with the opening curtain. Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields have taken a wornout family comedy theme and used it to glue together a formidable number of jokes about six, child psychology, and television. They have written a farcical Date with Judy, funnier than its television counterparts but a little pointless for two hours in the theatre...
...order to touch or to be touched? Or, rather, Old Graybeard, why the devil was I ever born at all?" Brown himself shares the mood of despair: "This is Daddy's bedtime secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue...
...University Employees Representative Association is a curiously amorphous group of janitors, maids, bakers, printers, and book-binders united only by the common goal of getting a square deal from the University. The glue that holds this diverse group together has always been one strong man. For twelve years, this man was Daniel G. Mulvihill, the president. But the men who removed him last April preferred to step into the background, elect weak officers, and run the union from off-stage...
...little Manhattan glue and plywood store, one day in 1921, Proprietor Lawrence Ottinger turned to a 20-year-old helper and said : "Tony, there's a great future in this business. It's barely starting, and you're right on the ground floor with me." On the boss's advice, young S. W. ("Tony") Antoville, a Columbia University student, gave up his plans to go to law school, kept his job in the store and insured his future. As the U.S. Plywood Corp. (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950), Lawrence Ottinger's little store became the biggest...
...These greens are awful," Ben Hogan told his new Scottish friends. "It's like putting on glue. I've got a lawnmower back in Texas. I'll send it over to you." Indeed, U.S. Champion Hogan, making his first practice rounds of the old municipal golf course at Carnoustie on the eve of the British Open, saw very little that he liked...