Word: pulverizes
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John U. Lemmon, III '47, a former HDC star, won an Oscar Wednesday as the best supporting actor of 1955. He received the award for his portrayal of Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...
After some acting on television, Lemmon moved to Hollywood and the movies. He tried for eight years to get the role of Pulver, but when "Mr. Roberts" first opened as a play, he did not have enough experience and later also lost out in the casting for the road company...
...PULVER...
...crew does nothing new, but does it well; the engine is obviously the American branch of the same mechanical family that spawned the device in The Man in the White Suit. Led by Eddie Albert and Jack Webb, the officers are variations on the theme of Ensign Pulver, and Millard Mitchell plays the "regular navy" chief bosun in the regular Hollywood manner...
...backbone of the play, and this one, although physically unlike the original cast, is of the same high quality. There is also one pretty girl in the cast, and she has a birthmark. But you don't get to see it, and neither does Pulver...