Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Seasoned Cooks Ben Butler, Gelett Burgess, Ole ("Hellzapoppin") Olsen, and Rube Goldberg looked on, ex-Congressman Bruce Barton thrust a spoonful of his best spaghetti between the large lips of Illustrator Arthur William Brown, which thereupon smacked noisily, made other sounds indicating that Adman Barton had proved himself worthy of membership in Manhattan's Society of Amateur Chefs...
...Name & College Games Goals Fouls Points J. Bennett, Cornell 5 23 18 64 Cobb, Yale 5 18 15 51 Broberg, Dartmouth 3 17 5 39 Stewart, Cornell 5 15 7 37 Dunbar, Cornell 5 13 9 35 Zilly, Yale 5 11 9 31 Jolly, Cornell 5 12 6 30 Olsen, Dartmouth 3 12 6 30 Hunter, Cornell 5 7 15 29 Levinson, Pennsylvania 3 13 2 28 Munroe, Dartmouth 3 9 7 25 Seelbach, Yale 5 8 9 25 Hasslinger, Columbia 2 8 5 21 Wightman, Yale 5 7 6 20 Viguers, Pennsylvania 3 7 2 16 Caputo, Pennsylvania...
...lunatic history 3,000 panes of glass have been shattered (the noise accompanies the waggling of a chorus girl doing the bumps), 150,000 pounds of ice have been dumped in the laps of the audience, 150,000 rounds of blank ammunition have been fired from 22 revolvers, Hellzapoppers Olsen & Johnson have changed costumes 60,000 times, a laughmeter has recorded 510,000 gales of laughter. The attendance record is held by Radio Announcer Graham McNamee, who has seen the funnybusiness 17 times...
Last week, after the 1,009th performance, Stage magazine gave a party for Olsen & Johnson on the stage of Manhattan's Winter Garden. The proceedings had the scrambled, incredible tone of Hellzapoppin itself. Olsen & Johnson approached a large birthday cake with a pair of fire axes. From the ceiling fell hundreds of balloons filled with capsules to be exchanged for boxes of candy, miniature radios, other favors. During an absurd game of Truth or Consequences, Heavyweight Lou Nova ran a foot race, impeded by a hastily donned corset. The most implausible feature of the entertainment came when, as another...
With Broberg, Olsen, Munroe, a Sophomore forward; Parmer, and Pearson, the Green appears to have balance and scoring power to go far. Winning this year, Dartmouth could tie the league record of four straight championships. Penn won four straight...