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When the band had finished and the speeches were over, square-jawed Commander James Osborn, 41, stepped forward on the deck, read the commissioning orders and said: "I am ready to hoist the colors." Up went the Stars and Stripes and the commissioning pennant on the first U.S. submarine of a new class to join the fleet-the history-making Polaris sub George Washington.* Skipper Osborn next turned smartly to his executive officer, snapped a gloved salute. "Mr. Hannifin," he ordered, "set the watch...
...like Gigi, was adapted from Colette by Anita Loos. As Gigi hoisted a young girl, Audrey Hepburn, into the limelight, Chéri may hoist a young man, Horst Buchholz. Playing the title role, this European film actor manages-not wholly through ability but through his matinee-idol appearance-to be the most effective part of a generally empty show. He plays the overindulged, sexually precocious, humanly immature son of a pre-World War I grande cocotte, who has brought him up to make a rich marriage...
...Price to transform the prefab is intensive automation of his factories. IBM machines control quality and monitor shipments. Nailing machines pound nails into interior and exterior sections with a single bang, and machines automatically cut, sand and paint every section. Overhead cranes move parts down a long assembly line, hoist them onto one of Price's fleet of 476 trucks which take on a house every seven minutes...
...Hoist a cup o' sack to the Connecticut Stratfordians! With their new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, which had its official opening yesterday afternoon, co-directors John Houseman and Jack Landau have put the American Shakespeare Festival back into high gear...
...songs and dances that punctuate the destinies of the Boyle family often appear to be crashing the show. Melvyn Douglas kicks up a clog with a couple of cronies in a pub, and suddenly all Dublin floods onstage to sing that he's a Daarlin' Man, and hoist him on its shoulders. The intimate numbers are best. An Agnes de Mille solo, powerfully danced by Juno's doomed son (Tommy Rail), makes a poignant moment out of the life-destroying blight of Ireland's "Troubles." Two lovers' laments, One Kind Word and For Love, affectingly...