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...Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe and Johnnie Ray-and some of the names drop with a big thud. The show is an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined set of ball bearings, becomingly encased, and Marilyn Monroe will undoubtedly singe the eyebrows off front-row patrons in her Heat Wave...
Nothing to Something. After 1 a.m. the crowd's feverish excitement and the broader horseplay onstage began to simmer down. The music became more spiritual, and the children in the audience dropped off to sleep. By 2, half the crowd had drifted away, and at 2:15 the singers were packing their effects into their Cadillacs for the trek to the next night's stand...
There were meetings, too. Basso Berney Simmer, 51, of St. Louis, a district manager for Acme Visible Records, Inc. (business files), was elected president of the organization. Most important of all were the contests. Beginning with semifinals, in which 40 quartets and 22 choruses participated, the convention ended with a wall-rocking sing-off for the quartet Medalist prize. In Constitution Hall (dubbed Harmony Hall for the occasion) the big finals began with a Wichita, Kans. group called the Orphans. Dressed in blue tailored coats and pants and red bow ties, the quartet sang a smooth When the Bell...
...middleaged, she gets a divorce and marries Jim at last. But now the shoe is on the other foot: old Nimmo, under the pretext of getting Nina's help with his memoirs, lays siege to her and carries the fort again & again. Even with Jim in a simmer of jealousy, she can't turn Chester away. At novel's end all three are living precariously together...
Occassionally, "rustication" was employed as a punitive measure. The offending student was sent off to some rural area for several months, where he could simmer down and, at the same time, receive individual instruction, usually from a Harvard graduate. In several cases, however, this method also failed. One student, having been rusticated to Groton for his leadership in a dining hall riot to protest the inferior quality of the food, fell in love with the area and refused to return to the College...