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...year-old grandmother in the face, but the old woman was not one bit impressed by her deferential pat on the cheek. "You'll have to hit me harder than that, dear, if the scene's going to work." So Helen Hayes took a good smash from Miss Bisset-and the scene worked. Back in Hollywood, after a 13-year absence, for the filming of Arthur Hailey's bestseller Airport, the great lady of the stage still scorns a standin. In her role as chronic stowaway Ada Quonsett, she even insisted on doing a wrestling scene with...
...many others in the business. It was Loesser who refused Author-Director George Abbott's offer to write Pajama Game, instead pressured Abbott into giving two young writers named Jerry Ross and Richard Adler a chance. They made the most of it. Pajama Game (1954) was a smash. If Frank Loesser believed in his friends and proteges, he also believed in himself. And who could blame him if once in a while he serenaded himself with the song J. Pierrepont Finch sings to his mirror in How to Succeed...
Trying to lob against Laver is usually a costly mistake, for he has one of the hardest and most accurate overhead slams in the game. But often, he will employ the lob himself, daring one to smash it back, then ease into position and when the slam comes, return it beautifully...
About 150 students--between 50 and 60 of them seniors--then marched out of the Tercentenary Theater, chanting "Smash ROT--No Expansion...
From that analysis, students come to the conclusion that their only redress is to "flout authority and smash institutions." Pusey said that view was "all-too-simple," and developed a long alternative...