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...mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
...which lies in the west-central section of the state along the Minnesota border, is traditionally a La Follette Progressive district. It has a strong membership in the Farmers Union, the left wing of farm organizations, and a substantial C.I.O. vote. It was long the personal barony of Representative Merlin Hull, whom it elected to eleven terms in Congress, six as a Progressive and five as a Republican. Though he wore the Republican label from 1947 until he died last May, Congressman Hull had voted more like a Democrat on domestic issues. In two primaries, the Republican organization had tried...
...Died. Merlin Hull, 82, G.O.P. and Progressive U.S. Representative from Wisconsin for 21 years; in La Crosse...
...Died. Merlin Hall Aylesworth, 66, pioneer in network radio (he introduced listeners to Amos 'n' Andy, Major Edward Bowes, the Walter Damrosch music appreciation hour), first president of the National Broadcasting Co. (1926-36), onetime (1938-39) publisher of the old New York World-Telegram; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...From Merlin and the Gleam. Tennyson later wrote that "the Gleam . . . signifies . . . the higher poetic imagination...