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...wife and I were the last persons at Culter to see him on Sunday night, April 5, when he simply disappeared. We are sorry to hear that he is such a rascal. He is extremely likable and pleasant, and certainly brilliant, generous to a fault. His worst faults seemed to be a tendency to laziness and a drive to succeed at all costs. No one dreamed that he was a fraud...
...Force announced last week that it is canceling its air-to-ground missile Rascal, now surpassed by the longer-range Hound Dog. Due soon, on orders from the President, is an appallingly long-delayed decision between the rival liquid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the Air Force's Thor and the Army's Jupiter. Last week's splendid 6,300-mile performance by Atlas may also firm a tentative decision to slow down on or drop the Air Force's alternative intercontinental ballistic missile Titan. Also to be cut back or discarded: the Navy...
...film, at any rate, there is little danger of confusion. Boston's Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
There are certain stage personas that middle-age, middle-class, middle-brow men and women will pay good money to see. One is the dashing international gypsy, suave and prestigious, something of a rascal, preferably done in a clipped British accent. Another is the brusque, dammit-to-hell type society woman, a kind of orthodox Auntie Mame, who bustles around and smokes like a man. The audience, of course, likes to dream themselves into the two for an evening. What the actors do while they walk around in these characters doesn't matter a whole...
...Music Man would fall flat on its corn husks when it opened at the Majestic Theater. By Broadway standards, it is simpleminded and unsophisticated. It is also warmhearted, brilliantly performed and a lot of fun. The Music Man is Professor Harold Hill, a glib-tongued, fast-footed, woman-chasing rascal of a traveling salesman from Gary, Ind., who bursts into staid River City, charms a frozen-faced populace into digging into their cookie jars and mattresses to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band that will be led by Professor Hill himself. The show winds up with...