Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mousetrap play. The U.S. Army captain and the Vietnamese airborne battalion, which he served as adviser, fought their way into a Viet Cong camp near Bong Son one night, only to find the place deserted. Then, at midnight, with the ammo running low, Captain Pete Dawkins, 27, had the V.C. red-dogging in on both flanks. After a quick firefight, Army's 1958 AllAmerica halfback huddled with his assistant, Lieut. Dick McDaniel, a former Nebraska end, and called for a "quick draw"-an artillery barrage from the nearby 1st Air Cavalry Division. That play scored fine, and afterward...
...itself is a large balloon full of wind, a satire on itself. "The world is getting so crazy you just have to laugh," says Art Buchwald, who lists some recent examples of self-satire: Lyndon Johnson showing his scar, Premier Ky and his wife in their Captain and Mrs. Midnight flight suits, the Ecumenical Council debating whether the Jews really killed Christ. There is surprisingly little political satire of Lyndon Johnson. The reason, believes Playwright-Director George Abbott, is that "humor is exaggeration, and President Johnson is his own exaggeration." Kennedy, in short, had a silk hat that could...
...Stump Artur" game in which they would call out titles?excerpts from symphonies, operas, Cole Porter scores?to see if he could play them. "Stumped Friends" would have been a better name for it. "Rubinstein," says Conductor Edouard van Remoortel, "is the only pianist you could wake up at midnight and ask to play any of the 38 major piano concertos...
...peasants. Snipers were firing, and it would have worked well, except that Ky and Mai arrived in matching jet-black flight suits, purple scarves, flight boots and blue flying caps. The villagers were struck dumb. "Good God," said a watching American, "they look like Captain and Mrs. Midnight...
...partnership." Haughton, an Alabama coal miner's son, put himself through the University of Alabama by moonlighting in the mines, graduated ('33) as an accountant, and joined Lockheed in 1939. A prodigious worker who arises at 4 o'clock every morning, rarely gets to bed before midnight, he spends at least half of his time jetting about through Lockheed's 34-state corporate domain...