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...story makes Agganis a kind of displaced restaurateur who soothes the ulcers of "Mr. General," the camp commander (Roland Winters), with such far-out Hellenic treats as octopus and goats' bladders. The resulting buddyhood is so mawkish that most of Act II goes down the sentimental drain. There are two rowdy high spots. At one point, Mr. General's two-star superior (John McGiver) stuns the camp and apoplectrifies himself by Jeeping in on a Greek-styled folk fling, where he finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled...
...Octopus. One of his parishioners once said that Dr. Sockman "looks like Adolph Menjou and acts like John Wesley." The urbane six-footer, in his Homburg and pinstripe, and the warmly moving preacher who crowds his church with 1,500 people of a Sunday, are both a far cry from the farm boy in Mount Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made...
Ralph Washington Sockman moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (20th Century-Fox) rates poorly in science fiction's Foam-Rubber Monster and Magnified Chameleon category; its only people eaters are a shamefully lethargic giant squid, an octopus and a shark. The film's score in the End of Civilization As We Know It division is hardly more impressive; the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, and the earth's temperature rises to a toasty 173°. Voyage, however, does creditably in Wires, Dials and Doodads; there is an atomic submarine almost as gorgeous as a producer's Cadillac...
Show business's "star-spangled octopus," the Music Corp. of America, was up in alms. After the talent agency's top brass decided to honor Board Chairman Jules Caesar Stem's 65th birthday with a donation to his favorite charity -Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.-ex-Ophthalmologist Stein promised to "match anything raised up to a million." Last week 19 of his openhanded executives ponied up an even million and forced him to fill out the $2,000,000 parlay. Said part-time Philanthropist Stein: "I guess they've done pretty well here, after...