Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pal Joey (Columbia), a musical that has enjoyed two major runs on Broadway (1940-41, 1952-53), was once modestly characterized by John O'Hara, who wrote the playscript, in a phrase that has become a Broadway byword. Said O'Hara: "It ain't Blossom Time" It sure ain't, but it is a dandy piece of entertainment−the sad, hilarious story of how a kept man lost his meal ticket. It has some of the spunkiest and most graceful music Richard Rogers ever wrote, some wackily witty, leering lyrics ("The way to my heart...
...matter of fact, it took Hollywood to prove how good the stage show really is. Almost everything that could be done wrong the moviemakers have done wrong in this production, and yet somehow the picture comes out remarkably right. The film oversanitizes Pal Joey's original fun-and-gaminess and, what's worse, imprisons the show's vitality in a plaster cast. As the young love interest, Kim just trudges around in the well-known Novakuum, and Rita Hayworth, especially when she sings her big song (Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered), still sounds the siren, but where...
...show is saved by Frank Sinatra, who does a tremendous job in the title role. Pal Joey was a hoofer in the play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent...
...marched nearly 2,000 delegates to the quinquennial convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as unsaintly a crew as U.S. labor has to offer. They were there to elect-or rather, ratify -a president. The man they wanted was a man they loved: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, pal of gangsters, target of national scorn and innumerable investigations, soon to appear in New York to defend himself on charges of wiretapping and perjury...
...post. A onetime (1951-52) Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he served ably in 1955-56 as chairman of a top-level citizens' panel set up by the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy to study and report on peaceful uses of atomic energy. As a pal and protege of the committee's vice-chairman, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, McKinney has an influential friend on Capitol Hilla valuable asset when it comes to keeping Congress friendly toward IAEA...