Word: pullerisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...
...full of such ideas. Elman, who has been in show business since he was six, already has one big network show, Hobby Lobby (CBS, Thurs., 9:30 p.m., E.W.T.), which has brought him $350,000 since 1937. (It features people with silly pastimes, such as inventing a pants-puller-upper, collecting baby elephant hairs, compiling unfunny jokes.) He has been trying to repeat Hobby's success ever since. Among his previous tries was one called Contact, about people who wanted to find long-lost friends or relatives. Elman said he got the idea while wondering what became...
Playwright Kelly is no punch-puller-and no knight of chivalry. In The Deep Mrs. Sykes he brings down the whip, with a kind of cold fury, on the whole "female" nature. Yet he carefully digs beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep...
Crowe croaked: "First thing you do, cut off that hanging thumbnail. It's damned annoying." Leatherneck's Career. Like many an other famed Marine (e.g., Generals "Lem" Shepherd and "Red Mike" Edson, Colonel "Chesty" Puller), Kentucky-born Jim Crowe started in the ranks. He was an enlisted man up to 1934, when he became a Marine gunner (warrant officer). After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned a captain ("I was never a lousy second looey...
Wooden Crosses. It is not Puller's belligerence and cold nerve alone which make him a great field officer. Chesty says: "It takes a lifetime to become a good, officer." Devoted to his men, he watches over them like an old hen. Said a sergeant: "You're afraid to talk about the old man because likely as not he'll be right behind you whether you're in a foxhole, on the line during an attack, or standing in line for chow...