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Breslin has dropped his share of clinkers along the way, such as his Runyonesque columns about guys like Jerry the Booster, who distracts clerks by dropping his pants in department stores so his buddies can clean the racks of Hickey-Freeman 42-regulars, and about a barkeep named Mutchie, who sends notes to friends' funerals saying: "I am very sorry it had to come to this." But when Breslin graduated to writing his mood pieces about the day's biggest news events, from Selma to Saigon, he was often unbeatable. He has been called a male sob-sister...
...Tokyo park convinced the cast that their stage kisses had been too tame. The uniformly black-haired actors wanted to wear wigs of different colors to make them look more like Americans, but Clurman vetoed the wiggy look. Only Noboru Na-kaya, in the central role of Hickey, was given a shock of red hair...
Armado (Josef Sommer), the handsome and bombastic Spaniard, is funny when he swings his sword about with disregard for anything in its way, and just as funny when--saying, "Rust, rapier"--he kisses and resheathes it. Costard (William Hickey), his rival for the affections of Jaquenetta, wears red sneakers, striped pants, and an orange jacket with slogan buttons on the front and "Make Love Not War" embroidered on the back. When Dull drags him off, he yells, "Police brutality!"; and, soon after, he calls Armado a "Fascist Hindu!" Jaquenetta herself (Zoe Kamitses) turns out to be a yellow-stockinged blonde...
...State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge Civic Association member; Joseph Carceo, former president of the Marsh Post veterans organization: Francis Mahoney, an undertaker on Huron Avenue a block away from the Hickey undertaking establishment; Bernard Flynn, a city worker; Mrs. Bernard Flynn and Mrs. James Sugrue, housewives; James Maloney, a printer; and Patricia Rumsey, a secretary in the county government...
...case of Ward 9, the overwhelming victory of the student slate could encourage people to run against Hickey. The Committee makeup has worried Hickey enough to make him abortively attempt to win the chairmanship for himself, even though he finished behind all 12 opponents...