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Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein's blithe-spirited romp through San Francisco's Chinatown...
...Skinner, Roberto Clemente, and Bill Virdon all have hit .300 or better at one stage in their major league careers, and if they do it this year, the Bucs could romp. The Pirates' only real problem is lack of bench strength and an epidemic of injuries would be more fatal to them than to any of the other top contenders...
...time was there any question about the outcome of this afternoon's romp. The Yardlings tallied three times in the first period, five times in the second, and twice in the third. McGrath scored the lone Huskie goal in the second period...
Record breakers in the freshman romp were Fred Elizalde who swam the 100-yard butterfly in 57.7 sec., freestyler Harry Southall, who swam 200 yards in 2:01.3, and Captain Bob Kaufmann, who did the 100-yard backstroke...
...theater folk are to achieve reality, they should at least create effects. Had Edwin Booth, however foolish, recaptured something high-bustedly gaudy, had John Wilkes provoked hisses or Edwin aroused huzzahs, had Shakespeare been spoken or even ranted well, a bad play might have proved a pleasant romp. But despite the dress-up and the makeup, there is virtually no make-believe. On an all-purpose set where anything could happen, almost nothing does. Even Shakespeare comes to resemble a string of clichés; even the madness of the Booths is doused by the madness of the enterprise...