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...showdown between partners, the bigger name usually wins. Moore recalls that when he played for Chaliapin, the great Russian bass used to ham up the end of Schumann's Die beiden Grenadiere with a great theatrical gesture, causing the pianist's Nachspiel to be lost in the applause. "There was nothing I could do," says Moore. "Chaliapin was a great big chap more than six feet tall...
...skilled workers and factory to with occasional young professional junior executives. But as one gets a mile north or south of Route 6 (feet) the houses become larger and the year more and more frequently. In her homes are bankers, professional people, and executives of industries in nearby Wind ham and Hartford Counties...
...campaigns and campaigners throughout U.S. history, came up with a prodigious list of well-known stars-Thomas Mitchell as Grover Cleveland, Edward G. Robinson as Teddy Roosevelt, Art Carney as F.D.R.-and a curious collection of littleknown facts, e.g., William Jennings Bryan (Martin Gabel) calmed his nerves with a ham sandwich before his "Cross of Gold" speech...
Discarding his prepared text, Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan said that peace and freedom go together ("like ham and eggs, I almost said"), that we need "to mobilize the moral and spiritual forces of the world" in a Project Mankind. In an interview prior to his speech, Williams said Kennedy would get a National Peace Agency bill through Congress, and that unilateral steps toward disarmament, except for a test moratorium "get onto dangerous ground...
...Norman Corwin has adapted it for the stage and Bette Davis and Leif Erickson act it out, Sandburg's world remains dramatically mild, a little ostentatiously benign, its warm iron-kettle juices mingling the flavor of sage and ham. At its best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails...