Word: lumpkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic students! Attention! Emergency orders! 1) Reread all 'bulls' and 'encyclicals.' 2) Weapons will be issued at the Newman Arsenal, Catholic student center on Lumpkin Street. 3) Take captive only those who can be brainwashed; kill others. 4) Remember that these groups are our allies: (a) Communists, (b) Fascists, (c) Nazis, (d) Stoics...
Then the entertainment began, swinging from rowdy boogies to fervent waltzes, all in praise of the Lord. First was the Gospel Melody Quartet, then the Harmoneers, featuring Tenor Happy Edwards in eye-rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta...
LIEUT. CMDR. PICKETT LUMPKIN LIEUT. EDMUND L. CASTILLO...
There are nice performances, beginning with Maurice Evans' reciting of a sprightly modern prologue. As Tony Lumpkin, the celebrated booby of the piece, Ezra (Henry Aldrich) Stone is amusing but cannot avoid the booby trap of badly overdoing things. Celeste Holm and Brian Aherne are an engaging pair of lovers, and Burl Ives a good solid 18th Century father. Almost everybody, indeed, acts agreeably; the hitch is that virtually no two people act in the same style...