Word: hamm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hamm is the main character of the play. Blind, unable to stand, he is wheeled about and catered to by Clov, who irrationally obeys him though constantly threatening to leave. Hamm keeps his parents, Nagg and Nell, in barrels from which their heads occasionally appear to reminisce, tell a joke, listen to Hamm. The characters inhabit a world going dead. They have run out of bicycle wheels, sugar plums, and worst of all, pain killers. They pass the time running through stale old stories and pointless dialogues as their only protection against the death outside...
...acting in general is excellent, Jan Madsen gives a wonderful comic performance as Hamm. Though unable to use his eyes or his body, he rivets the audience's attention with his voice and a remarkable repertoire of arm gestures. His highpoint is an attempt to narrate a story he has composed, throwing out one version after another, ripping pages from a notebook he isn't supposed to be able to read, commenting on the narrative ("A bit feeble, that"), and eventually running out of inspiration. His only problem is a voice that at times seems to verge on a Kirk...
Other clients followed quickly, and College Marketing's representatives on 700 campuses now push credit cards for Sun Oil, Gulf, Standard of Indiana and Trans World Airlines. The company has done marketing polls for Miles Laboratories, Schlitz and Levi Strauss. For Hamm's beer, Vittert displayed a flair for corny but attention-getting promotion. His firm designed a fraternity-house poster that shows a seminude girl balancing a can of beer on her bottom. The headline: THE MAN'S CAN YEAR ROUND. Last May, College Marketing closed the books on its first year with a profit...
Died. William Hamm Jr., 86, chairman of the Midwest's Hamm Brewing Co., who in 1933 made the headlines when he was kidnaped by the notorious Alvin Karpis-Ma Barker gang and only released after payment of $100,000; in St. Paul, Minn...
...going on under the table. With the present system, the public has a feeling that a rating has been earned, not bought." Nevertheless, some manufacturers occasionally try to cash in on a favorable CR rating. CR always takes court action to stop them. It is currently battling the Theodore Hamm Brewing Co. of Minnesota over the use of CR's name in its beer...