Word: phil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...
...Although its story of jukebox racketeering is mere rundown Runyon, this musical is saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker and its occasionally amusing Comden-Green lyrics...
...Phil Meyer will be facing the Crimson's Peter Smith at number one. Meyer, a 5 ft., 7 in. junior, was good enough to squeak by Lake in last year's match, but has yet to achieve a notable victory this year...
...book by Garson Kanin; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) has certainly its good things-though not enough to make it a good musical. Its top draws, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, greatly compensate for how little else-actually, just the best lyrics-is top drawer. But other things prove of use; and the general setup-Silvers as a little man aching to be a big shot and inducing some old slot-machine racketeers to muscle in on jukeboxes-has a promisingly raffish...
...lawyer, but after representing the Newspaper Guild in a strike against Hearst in 1938, he became a labor specialist. (During the war he served with distinction as the OSS contact with Europe's underground labor movement.) In 1948 Goldberg committed himself to the labor movement when the late Phil Murray made him general counsel of the Steelworkers' union. At the wedding of the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. in 1955, he was one of the main marriage brokers. Since then, he has become special counsel (and ex officio policy adviser) to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and on occasion has worn...