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Word: macs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Pipe Dream | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...Time for Sergeants (adapted by Ira Levin from the novel by Mac Hyman) offers a really good evening of simple-minded fun. Less a play than an episodic romp, it tells of Will Stockdale, an incorrigibly good-natured young hillbilly who is inducted into the U.S. Air Force. Will puts his foot in his mouth as nonchalantly as though it were his pipe; he triumphs over every crisis by never knowing he is in one; he stands the Air Force on its ear by looking everyone guilelessly in the eye. So backwoods as not to know that a sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...time. Will Stockdale, the hero of No Time for Sergeants, is a genius at this artless art. His naive, well-meant blunders form the best argument yet discovered against continuing the draft, or at least the best remedy for accepting it. The resulting comedy, which Ira Levin adapted from Mac Hyman's best-selling novel, shows how a Georgia farm boy can send the U.S. Air Force into a tailspin. Maurice Evans has produced this new play almost as a sequel to the Teahouse of the August Moon, and though it lacks the subtle charm of its predecessor, its homespun...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: No Time for Sergeants | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

ELIOT: The Elephants slumped badly in football last year after several strong seasons, but the outlook this fall is brighter. Senior Phil Price and juniors Stan Freedman and Mac Hyde bolster a strong backfield while Dave Sirota, Pete Beak, and Don Breed are also among the returning players from last year's seventh place eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty-Fifth Intramural Season to Begin Next Week With House Football, Soccer | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

Journalism: "Gimme the desk. Hello. Mac? Hold the presses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memory Lane | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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